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It's not a weird article at all. And from what you posted, you didn't even read it.

The author mentioned in the very beginning of the article that they wanted something that would work cleanly across their other (*NIX) platforms. Powershell, while fantastic, is not cross-platform.

And Cygwin does some funny stuff that also makes client configuration a bit of extra work if you're, again, dealing with multiple platforms.
Lets just say that PostgreSQL answers the criticisms of relational databases that led to NoSQL. The complaints all boiled down to saying that the RDBMS forced you to do things one way and that it was cumbersome. PostgreSQL evolved and fixed the most annoying issues like JSON support and schemaless key-value store support. That's the way open source is supposed to work. Now folks are learning that throwing out the baby with the bathwater leads to more complexity than just learning how to use a relational database. The pendulum has swung back.
It is unfixable because people think that fixing it is a solution. It isn't. Patents need to be abolished completely. The world for which they were designed does not exist anymore.
After I finished reading that the only thing I could think is the next guy is gonna burn out fast.
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First, the 4th amendment isn't worded as a restriction on the actions of the government, like many other "rights" in the Constitution, but as a personal right. While an individual can't consent to say the government's exercise of an unconstitutional power, an individual can waive a personal right. For example, if the government eminent domains my property to build a highway, its not a violation of the Constitution if I waive my right to just compensation. So while the call metadata is clearly protected by the 4th amendment as to AT&T, its their personal right and they can waive it.

Second, ("th[e] weird idea... that the Fourth Amendment only applies when the person about whom information is sought is the person whose person, houses, papers, or effects are being searched or seized") doesn't stem from the exclusionary rule, but rather the subpoena power. The subpoena duces tecum (subpoena for the production of documents) predates the 4th amendment by quite a bit, appearing in England in its modern form sometime in the 1600's. While an overly broad or abusive subpoena can be a 4th amendment violation (but against the person at whom the subpoena is directed, not against the subject of the documents sought), they are presumptively reasonable.
Of course it's punishment. You have to pay an extraordinary amount of time and money under threat of violence. And even when you do comply, from then on you have to start judging whether or not the next feature you add is worth the cost of compliance.

This is going to stifle innovation.
You should see the French-bashing here.
Africa and Brazil is part of what I'm thinking about. We don't have to imagine elites walling themselves off and being indifferent ... there are places on earth where that already exists.

In fact, to be fair to Africa and Brazil, I think that exists to a large extent in America. Lots of people couldn't care less what happens in poor parts of the country.
All the philosophical issues and /(No)?SQL/ discussions aside, as a heavy user of Postgres and a user of Errbit, this is very good news to me. I have not much experience with running Mongo, but I have a ton of experience with running Postgres.

Even better: The application I'm using Errbit the most for is already running in front of a nicely replicated and immensely powerful postgres install.

Being able to put the Errbit data there is amazing.

This is some of the best news I've read today :-)
Mongo also doesn't have a concept of a transaction so it needs these types of atomic update mechanisms in order to be able to do much of anything sanely. This isn't a problem with SQL which has ACID. I'm not saying that's always the right thing or a good thing, just that your example and conclusion isn't technically correct. Mongo's update capabilities are not more sophisticated but are necessarily different.

That being stated, I'll agree that similar mechanisms for the JSON fields would make sense for Postgres to consider in the future.
And let's not forget the fact that it has a per database lock, which is a really strange choice for a document database.
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That's more or less what Ubuntu is.
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I was pretty excited about the Galileo[1] board when it was announced (and a bit disappointed they laid me off before I could buy some at a discount). Might still buy one retail, since it's a good match for a project I have. It is not trying to be an x86 Raspberry Pi, as it has no video and more I/O, though I consider it a mistake to hang most of the GPIO pins off SPI. I also think they ought to have ensured before release that a wider range of OSes ran on it — various RTOSes, free and otherwise, and FreeDOS, to make it a drop-in replacement for the ol' PC-with-parallel-port.

[1] http://arduino.cc/en/ArduinoCertified/IntelGalileo
Person (previously "Man") of the year has never been a moral judgment. Hitler was "man of the year" in 1936. It's a question of who had the most impact -- for good or ill.
This was covered on PBD:

http://programmersbeingdicks.tumblr.com/post/68153753288/pen...
Are you actually asking me why I consider Mike Krahulik despicable? If you are not aware of the issues surrounding him, I am happy to link you to some of the better articles.

If you are aware of the controversy and are baiting me, I am not interested.
From the JS comments - made me laugh

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>It may seem old-fashioned but when I load a web page I don't want to sit looking at a 'loading' message or a progress bar

This is how bad implementations look to users, consider something like Gmail as a counter example however...

>would be interesting to hear the reasons behind the string of assertions in your penultimate sentence

Sure:)

>are you sure all types of app would benefit equally from your approach?

Of course I am not, I didn't make a that claim. I think most typical applications benefit, it has worked well for me. I was asking questions to understand the point of view I don't hold-

> Can you describe the advantages as you see them to this approach?

In this approach:
Performance:
1. Most assets are (server side) static
2. They are pre-gzipped and stored in memory using a little reusable code I wrote.
3. They are extremely cache friendly
Better scaling:
1. Only a fraction of the previous work happens server side... You using your users compute power.
2. You are transfering less data.
Faster to develop/easier to maintain:
1. This way you have two differnt apps that happen to talk to eachother. This makes it easy to replace one or the other.
2. Responsibilities are clearly defined. This makes brining new people up to speed easier and makes thingse asier to test, debug, etc.
I think it's sad that there are so many daily cannabis smokers out there, but it's still not acceptable to openly identify yourself as one because of possible professional/other repercussions.

Also you post looks like link bait with that vape plug.
Here's how you'd do that mbel:

const char[] str = "This is a string";
int len = sizeof(str) / sizeof(str[0]);

Compile-time..still not dynamic immutability though.

The array pointer can't change, the buffer size can't change, and the char components are const. Immutable but then again, you can violate that quite easily. And it's only compile-time immutability, which isn't all that great.
> PostgreSQL evolved and fixed the most annoying issues like JSON support and schemaless key-value store support.

As I recall, automatic sharding was on that list, and pg doesn't attempt to tackle that afaik.
This is honestly one of the worst articles I've ever read. I don't even know where to start.
I know of one implementation:
http://nltk.org
Oh wait...I see that you do support https :-)
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Savings doesn't matter if you're dead, but the other side can't be ignored either. If those billions permits more competition and leads to new drugs, that too can save lives.

We need to do what we think is most likely to lead to the best outcome. There's a point beyond which that's no longer "more research", at which point researching more isn't taking it seriously. I have no particularly strong feelings about just where we are in that space - I'm busy saving the world along other lines.
I spent some time learning Python and Django to some degree. Python is easy and I wish I could write more in it. Django felt less awesome, but still pretty good, except when it came to deploying it on my web hosting (Dreamhost). At the time, they only sort of supported it.

But I always fall back on PHP. I know it - it works, warts and all. It's maybe not a great scripting language, but it's a good one and it has the advantage of being almost ubiquitous.
Wow, incredible price point. Well done, Motorola. I'm perfectly happy with my Nexus4, but I almost want to buy a Moto G just because.
The United States of America. These cases are in federal courts.
There actually is such an header, based on the Metalink format, and aria2 supports it! Unfortunately, while many support Metalink files, almost no other download manager supports Metalink/HTTP headers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metalink#Example_Metalink.2FHTT...
"preferably in a professional workplace"

But see...

"- You should have no problems working in a creative and potentially offensive environment.
"BITCOIN IS A FANTASY RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE"

A fantasy with a built in pseudomynous essentially instantaneous global transaction system with no chargebacks or double spends or fees.

I can see absolutely no value in that whatsoever. Sorkin is a shill, plain and simple.
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Jerry is "Tycho", the writer. Mike (the one the issues surround) is "Gabe", the artist.
> I don't think we'd do a thing if the US raided his home in Russia and put a bullet in him.

Oh come now, of course we would. We'd up vote the HN article announcing this news. And the more radical among us would surely post a comment.
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This solution is born out of frustrating of constantly being spammed by recruiters. If you have this as the only email address they can contact you at and you enforce it they will have no choice but to bend to that.
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London is always going to be a worst-case scenario. You guys don't just have the journalist-making-a-hyperbolic-statement sort of royalty, you still have the for-real kind.
But I thought node was web scale.

Edit: Yep that was a lame joke. Anyhow, take my money, I love NPM and use it daily.
From an objective point of view, you're right - I still don't like the term (or the use-case, rather)...
I should have read your original post more closely, hadn't even heard about the Expression Problem. Makes more sense now after a bit of reading - I guess Haskell's notions of static typing are quite different from that of the C family of languages.
They should take Bitcoin for additional exposure
In France to take advantage of LTE I'd have to double the price of my subscription. The difference between HSPA+ and LTE is not worth that much for me.
High failure rates of external drives can also be attributed to the USB controllers - they're better than their IDE predecessors (which failed a lot, sometimes taking the drives with them - only low level utilities could revive them).
Otherwise, I don't see how or why the hard drive manufacturers would bother to send the worst batches (which aren't that much worse) to external hard drive assemblers.
Interesting idea, like github. Let's see how will this work ;0
"Technology is an enabler. It also enables the nasty stuff. And the elites while more powerful than ever will also be more fragile and vulnerable."

I'm trying to imagine the risk exposure with and without technology regarding the benefit for one's safety. In the past the rich people have always been exposed to robbery and other kind of crimes, and the only real solutions have been keeping a low profile or employing protecting forces. The technology worked well in reducing the risks of exposure. There doesn't make much sense now to be attacked for robbery as wealth isn't carried much around with you. I admit though that being attacked out of personal reasons wasn't brushed off by technology, but I didn't quite understood why would anyone be "hell bent on eating the rich"?
Then I'm actually puzzled by how it applies to NewEgg and so many other e-commerce companies.
You want to know which transactions occur that involve merchants? (leaving out exchanges?)
This community, like most others, has an unspoken bias against third-wave feminist bullies.

Look what happened to the "Atheism Plus" communities. They have been completely taken over by bigoted "social justice warriors" and their activism.

Completely.

Atheism is almost never discussed. And when it is, it is always discussed in the context of third-wave post-modern feminism. Think I'm lying? Take a look at any Atheism Plus community. Any!

Once a community accepts the tenants of post-modern discourse, it's over.
They mention somewhere on the site that they sell a private version of npm that they are working on, and also nodejitsu (the company behind npm) also runs a node hosting platform: https://www.nodejitsu.com/
Voted (with my "fake" FB account cause I don't have a real one).
As far as Redis goes, is there really much of anything in the space between bdb style KV stores and Redis? If you have design reasons for wanting your KV store in a separate process, why not use Redis?
You probably already have overtraining syndrome if you've been doing this for any length of time.

http://sportsmedicine.about.com/cs/overtraining/a/aa062499a....
The fact that metadata is generated and collected may be an issue of technology, but that doesn't change the essential characteristic of whether it's your data, or data about you. E.g., in 1776, there were no video cameras in public places. But technology doesn't change the essential character observing you in a public place versus in a private place.

> That notwithstanding, the entire notion of such meta-data is strictly an artifact of technology. There is no analogue in pure verbal speech, in other words.

Sure there is! Before mail was scanned for delivery purposes, you could always have called a postal worker to testify about what he read on the outside of the envelope. Before store cameras, you could have always called a store worker to testify about when he saw 001sky enter and leave the store and what he saw 001sky buy. Before automated call tracking, you could always have called a phone operator to testify about when 001sky placed a call. Technology makes it easier to collect metadata, but it does not turn "data" into "metadata."
I took that to mean "we haven't actually done much to exploit our extremely well-travelled site for profit, so we don't have as much money to go around as you'd think."
It's hard but the payoff is worth it. Just look at CPAN or any linux pacakge distribution system. The package hosting is all mirrored.
I'd imagine they've been footing the bill, and that it's become unsustainable.
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if it's any comfort to you, the reason why there's not nearly as much cameras on german streets, it's because germans even report each other for jaywalking.
Why is ignoring a government agency when they ask you to follow the law praiseworthy? The law says you cant market a diagnostic test without testing to know the accuracy of the test. I don't want to praise the snake oil salesmen who would also want to break this law so why should I praise what 23andMe did?
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Would also be interested to hear someone from nodejitsu's response to this.
Exactly but this email address can be used also for people that try to contact you for advice. I know when I go to meetups people who have THIS GREAT BUSINESS IDEA feel the need to present to me with no validation and try to bring me to their team. This email will be given to them and produce higher quality requests being sent in general.
> "lending a hand to pull up those around them. The mentality of modesty and collaboration greatly detracts from the sort of dystopian and polarized picture this article paints."

"Those around them" = those like themselves, who 99 times out of 100 aren't actually from around the Bay Area.

Hell, even the businesses supported by the Bay Area elite are not at all similar to those that already existed before. The wealthy exited entrepreneurs aren't lending a hand to pull up the taco stand or the nail salon, they are evicting them in favor of businesses they like better.

Which may simply be the natural order of things, but it's a far cry from this populist "floating all boats" story you're weaving.

More importantly, wealthy exited entrepreneurs are funding new generations of startups - but that's a far, far cry from "pulling up those around them". One of the things that really, really bothered me when living in the Bay Area was how the tech industry literally does not give one iota of mind to anyone who isn't in the tech industry.

The tech industry helps itself and lets the world go to shit around them. The tech industry builds gated garages instead of helping solve crime in their neighborhoods. They invest in bigger and fancier buses in which to transport their own kind, instead of helping solve transportation in their cities. Even innovations like Uber are priced in such a way that there may as well be a "techno-elites only, kthx" sign on the door.

It's only non-dystopian and non-polarized if you already have membership to the ol' boys club that is Silicon Valley, in which case the entrepreneurial community is indeed supportive and has each others' backs. If you aren't lucky enough to belong to this club though, you're shit out of luck, even if you live just down the street.

Which, now that I think of it, isn't that different from how East Coast Old Money works. Funny how we keep making fun of them.
For your sake, you better hope there won't be another ARMv7 and also ARMv8 version of Raspberry Pi, too :)
I am disturbed to see that the great-grandparent of this comment (the one saying "that doesn't make sense for a Bernoulli variable) has attracted 5 new upvotes since the parent of this comment (the one saying "oops, that was a mistake") was posted.

Everybody: Please stop upvoting my wrong comment. It was wrong. At best it may suggest a lack of clarity in the comment it was replying to, but that doesn't deserve 10 upvotes.

Thank you.

(Not that I mind being upvoted as such, but I do wish I saw more correlation between the quality of my comments and the votes they attract.)
...and provide Time marketing info by giving them access to your Facebook data. Not happening, thank-you very much.
One cause of the spaghetti code was the mixing of business logic and of presentation. The separation of concern was easier in smarter languages (like ruby or scala) than in php. Nowadays, templating and presentation is mostly performed on the client side and the server handles only the business. As a result, there is less difference between ruby and php. Nevertheless, the event style of javascript (scala ?) provides better performances.
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Just installed via the app store and it's not launching in Mountain Lion, even after a restart. Will upload report to github as well.
Good. We didn't want it anyway!
I support 300 Google users and I have 5 open tickets on Google drive that have been open for months.. One is some files do not sync its like a ghost sync.. They say its a known issues. Two when adding files to a shared drive the user that adds the file gets the storage added to their account not the shared folder. Three moving items from shared to my drive sometimes they become unshared and can only be reshared by the account holder and kinda get lost in space.. Four I have a account that has 2TB some times it will say scanning we for weeks at a time. Five when users have the client installed and work on some docs the same time as others it makes a new file and or the user that saves it last gats the changes saved.. They are all known props and at first I got the run around like reboot and is your computer on but after keeping the tickets open and supplying logs they have said they are working on a fix..
I'm a pretty powerful extrovert, but I need alone time on a regular basis to decompress and not be "on stage" for a bit. I have a friend with a very similar personality in this regard. Sometimes we'll get where we can be around each other, but not anyone else - so we have company, but company that gets it.

My wife is an introvert. We find parties and big social activities exhausting in very different ways. Her, because it involves a lot of social interaction she doesn't want to do. Me, because I feel I must go around and charm everyone, which is actually very tiring.
Exactly, half the price of a Nexus 5 with way better than half the performance. At this price point, I'll be buying a Moto G just for the hell of it - much like I bought the original Optimus V.

As far as the 4, I think they stopped manufacturing it - the sale earlier was them clearing out the remaining stock. That seems to be status quo for Nexuses.
Umm what is AOL Explorer? Is that like the original AOL browser jawn that was a window inside a second sand-boxed window that was virtually impossible to use? I didn't know it had a name.
I'm on BT too - pirateproxy didn't work until I changed to Google DNS:

nslookup pirateproxy.net
Server: google-public-dns-a.google.com
Address: 8.8.8.8

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: pirateproxy.net
Addresses: 78.138.99.186
91.236.116.37
78.138.99.189

Having said that, piratebay.sx says blocked regardless what I use.
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Go ahead and make the axes orthogonal instead of collinear. Just don't be surprised when most actual people fall close to the axes, rather than out in the middle of the graph.
It's really interesting how this whole introvert/extrovert thing has gained mass validation when it's mere hogwash. Yet it requires a strong self detachment to not get sucked in by the bs banter. I don't lose energy when I'm around people I know well, because I'm comfortable. When I'm nervous, and fidgety, in strange places that aren't my comfort zone, clearly I'm going to become fatigued by the extra energy spent on biological systems that deal with anxiety.

I have never adapted to strange situations very quickly because I'm somewhat haphazard to trusting the unknown. It really grates me to hear people accept their lack of social ability as a given, when the fact of the matter is, the more you throw yourself out there, and make strange conversation comfortable, the less energy it will take next time. Same goes with riding a bike, or driving a car. Get used to it, and you won't be as drained next time. Everyone starts at a different point due to upbringing and aggregate social experience. Like anything, training helps make it easier next time. This goes for sociality no different than programming.
Very nice post. Just this week I had issues using 'git rebase' and eventually I gave up using this future, instead copying my old repo to a new folder and initialising the new folder as a git repo. I just assumed I did something wrong :)

Hopefully one of the solutions pointed in the article will prevent any future issues with 'git rebase'.