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State of confusion: What is LAMP and when can I say I know it?
I've been learning PHP a bit over a year now and am getting fairly confident with it. Am at the slightly pre apply for jobs confidence level but nearly there.

One thing that confuses me is many jobs state you need to know the LAMP stack..

I'm able to get things done with MySQL and PHP and I've assumed my webhost works on a Linux Apache basis, but I couldn't really say I know anything about Linux nor Apache.

Guidance thrown my way would be appreciated, what does knowing LAMP mean and how would I get from here to there?
Thank you for making me aware of that candyjapan service, it seems to be the greatest thing ever. Definitely going to subscribe!
You will need some gnu common libraries. I tried building it from scratch recently, as a first step for implementing an extension idea, but didn't succeed.

(If anyone is interested, I want to add more operators, like intersection or difference of regular languages.)
Funny. In this case they don't seem to be utilizing the "copyright math" they apply to everything else, when there are normal citizens involved, or when they talk about China stealing "trillions of dollars of IP". If they did that they'd probably come up with trillions of dollars lost for Hollywood, too, due to all the movies and music American soldiers are pirating abroad, too.
There needs to be a feedback loop in cyptocurrencies. They look at the value of the coins on a exchange, the adjusts the amount of money generated to keep inflation at a constant 1% or 2% or whatever.
It means you know how to setup and configure the actual server, with the apache & mysql on it.

My advice: go start an account with Amazon AWS, they give you a micro instance for free for a year. Learn to start an instance, install apache, mysql and run some websites from it.
This isn't a problem if you generate source maps. Of course, if you have to support and debug old browsers, it's a different story.

A quick google search got me to SO: http://stackoverflow.com/a/807161 results seem pretty significant. Besides, the worse your connection is, the more you will appreciate these techniques.
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And there's many cultural forces at play. Many managers would pay a premium for a large disposable supply of programmers, rather than a smaller more skilled supply. Bargaining power becomes a factor; the smaller labor supply may demand more decisionmaking power than you culturally want to allow.
This sounds like an excellent material to make central lines out of, given the current rates (~5%) of infection by antibiotic resistant S. Aureus and friends.
You don't commit the packaged and minified code to your repo. Instead, you leave it in whatever number of source files you want to use (which are file repo'd).

The packaging and minification can be handled either as a filter at the server level or during the build and deploy if your stack supports that metaphor. These have been the common practices in my experience.
By this logic you can write really fast programs in Haskell, because it avoids computing unused values (and therefore complete calltrees). (Unfortunately, the management of such calltrees -- thunks -- often has higher cost than outright computing them in the first place.)

I try hard, but I'm not smart enough to write programs that do nothing. :)
This can be disabled, just google it.
I had a OCZ petrol drive that failed recently, it was just over a year old, but have had a vertex drive in another macbook pro that's still alive after 2 years. I just try and back up regularly. I'm surprised at the bankruptcy but they did have huge problems, their forums were inundated with issues.
"...pulled in towards Mars' orbit..."

Mars is further from the Sun then the Earth is.
Really doesn't apply in California.
There are indeed people at this stage.
Misses the point, I think? There are plenty of times you must alter human text. For example, a word processor with a find/replace function must be able to replace the correct text and not move extra symbols around while doing so. There are thousands of similar examples.
I have seen people store XML as VARCHAR in a database and send that very same raw XML string as a payload over a SOAP web service. That company also had their own GUI framework that consisted of generating XML by string concatenation and then doing XSLT transformations. I suppose that is what happens when you have team leaders, managers and a chief software architect who have little understanding of technology and its proper use.
" Without your knowledge? Really?"

Dunno many people who buy cars having any idea of the privacy issues of driving the nice new shiny car. Most normal people are only just realising that their entire online activity is recorded in one way or another. Cars? People don't have a clue. And why would they? Are we given data collection statements before we decide which car to buy?

I really get tired of people knowledgeable in a certain area assuming that the general population know, or should know, what they know.

No, the average punter has no idea what data their new car is sending back to base. And frankly, even as both a techie and petrol head, I don't either. I know it can happen, I know it does happen, but I have zero idea what, when or where. Sorry and all that.

(Um, seems I went off on a tangent below. Im leaving it in 'cos of the sheer effort involved.....But, you know, do stop at this point if you have a life)

What distorts public thinking even more is that a while ago politicians (UK) floated the idea that all cars should have some sort of computer fitted that can track and some how govern car use. (Safety and insurance, you understand. No, nothing to do with tracking the plebs, no, not at all. How dare the dear reader be so cynical. Shame on you!!!) On the political side, that has gone quiet. But the on the business side, its all the rage. People in general can be forgiven for thinking that because the political debate went away, so did the issue. So, no creepy tracking by government. But, the corporations are quietly implementing the strategy instead. And if government agencies want that date, one twist of the law and its all theirs.

And now as I think about it, what a clever strategy to reduce freedoms by the back door. Commerce seems to be able to do what governments could never do. In fact the genius of it is that we are happy to pay for it as a feature.

And that just cars. Look at what smartphones actually do. Not only do they track and catalog us, but we actually spend hours every single day literally filling out time sheets in the form of twitter and facebook. Imagine of a government told us to carry personal trackers and to spend a mere half hour filling out a form that told them what we did every day in even minimal detail.

All very odd to me.

Yes, I exaggerate, but hopefully to make a point.
No issue with resistance. Its this kind of unthinking FUD that muddies the conversation. Can we talk about what this polymer actually does?
There are practically no restrictions whatsoever. You have root as soon as you enable the developer mode from options. You can even flash your own images to the device.
Then it quits working (unlikely if the polymer attaches to vital cell membrane mechanisms but anyway). So what? Make a new polymer. That's the point; this can attack whatever. Its no longer a terrible problem if disease cells change or new ones appear.

And what's the alternative? Don't attack the cells? Let people get sick and die now, because in the future this mechanism which we aren't using might be obsolete? What's the logic there?
Yes the browsers do it.

But this is in case you have a bigger JS-File (e.g. for a Web-App) and your customer visit again, so you only have to transfer a small peace of data.

But iam not sure if the performance / traffic advantage is so high, that dyno justify the effort.
And you have one more source of possible error, so i did not think many developer will use it.

The idea is good, but the solution should work automatically in background on the transportation layer, between browser and server, not for app developer.

@Jason Anderson: Call google - chrome developer if they implement it in their Browser and write an apache Plugin ! :-)
What's a milli-micro?
> Is every unit now worth 4 melons now just because someone sold one for 4 melons to an outside trader?

Well, yes. That's why currencies increase in value, because they're in demand. That's why the value of the pound or dollar or whatever goes up and down.

> If I go to the store where I used to buy a melon for 1 unit and tell them now that I think I deserve 4 melons for a unit, what will they say?

Who knows? They might refuse to sell at that price. They might see that if they don't sell to you, you're likely to import melons more cheaply than you can buy them locally.

The storeowner should react by buying melons in bulk using his units and then selling them to you more cheaply than you can import them yourself. Bitcoin is not unlike this. It's the same. Things are worth what people are willing to pay for them.
The polymer doesn't work in a way that resistance is likely or even possible. They spill the bacterias guts. Its like getting resistance to head-blowed-off - not going to happen.
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3301 called themselves "think tank" twice
First in so called leaked email

"You are undoubtedly wondering what it is that we do we are much like a think tank in that our primary focus is on researching and developing techniques to aid the ideas we advocate liberty privacy security you have undoubtedly heard of a few of our past projects..."

http://uncovering-cicada.wikia.com/wiki/The_Leaked_Email
http://pastebin.com/RmqxWcnB

This leaked email is legit. Only punctuation is removed to conceal leaker's ID and first line, FUUU and last two lines are added. People whose servers have been visited in 2013 said htat message leaft on servers was similar/same as that leaked email from 2012.

Second time 3301 refereed to themselves as "think tank" was in "warning pastebin"
""much like a think tank in that [their] primary focus is on researching and developing techniques to aid the ideas [they] advocate: liberty, privacy, and security.""

http://pastebin.com/RmqxWcnB
http://uncovering-cicada.wikia.com/wiki/The_Leaked_Email

Legitimacy of this text is harder to prove. But it is too long not to be prepared in advance before posted on 4chan. And some 2012 "winners" confirmed hat they have seen references to Nietzsche, Jung and Jesuits in texts provided by their mentors on their secret onion git (which is offline now).

Proving anything about 3301 is impossible since those who know dont tell and those who tell dont know. If 3301 exists no real "member" will risk being expelled by revealing their secrets.

About name they are most often called just 3301 or Cicada 3301. If there are other "cells" of same organization they certainly use different names to conceal any connection between them.
But in general: "You have all wondered who we are and so we shall now tell you we are an international group we have no name we have no symbol we have no membership rosters we do not have a public website and we do not advertise ourselves we are a group of individuals who have proven ourselves much like you have by completing this recruitment contest and we are drawn together by common beliefs a careful reading of the texts used in the contest would have revealed some of these beliefs that tyranny and oppression of any kind must end that censorship is wrong and that privacy is an inalienable right."
But then, Clojure can also do this for an arbitrary number of operands

(< 1 2 3 4 5 6)
;; true

Any function can also take arguments from a list,

(apply < (range 1000))
;; true

Prefix notation really comes into it's own when you start looking at multiple arity functions. Please don't confuse unfamiliarity with absurdity.
Has bitcoin?
You're really reaching if you are trying to argue that Java isn't popular.
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Original title is better. I'm gonna call the cops.
The article is NOT about building systems on top of a regular CMS.

It's about starting to build a specialized system and ending up building a generic CMS because of an urge to make everything runtime-configurable.
Let me guess - the XML was sent over a SOAP web service that looked pretty much like:

string DoStuff(string arg)

Where the service call takes a string that actually contains XML and returns a string that actually contains XML....

My own "Worst use of XML" was someone wanting to use quite complex XML documents as a key in a database....
Refactoring is a result of having time to optimize your product because its undergoing pressure you didn't (couldn't) predict. Its reimplementing something you did cheaply at first because performance wasn't as important as time-to-market.

Its a fantasy that code can somehow be built to last forever.
I tried doing this on MtGox with a buy limit price of 1$. I didn't get any bitcoin :(

I do have a friend with 900btc though: I told him I was in the market for a dollar, and he just gave it to me, no questions asked. I wonder where he got it from?
To be fair, I didn't see anybody suggest that. This conversation tributary was about using the polymer as broadly as antibiotics are used now, in agriculture etc.
Wait, you can't use logic when it comes to money!

What are you, Satoshi Nakamoto?
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But isnt the hard part building the database ? I'm from South India and it knows about some small time south indian actresses. Either someone manually put it all in or they have a very smart crawler.
I wasn't making any argument, simply asking.
It's actually just Jon Skeet.
From the article:

"It’s the passion that makes us lose sight of the danger looming ahead, the trap we’re edging towards thanks to our subjective assumptions and vague speculation, the trap of building a overdesigned and overcomplicated system for its own sake. A CMS trap"

and, to address your objection:

"When you are asked to build an app with something like Drupal, you are in a whole different realm, where the CMS trap is pretty much your perpetual state of being."

As I said I would broaden the discussion even further. Over-design and over-complication is very much the hallmark of pretty much any CMS I have come across. The system becomes the biggest hinderance in respect to the realization of content and functionality. This IS pretty much what the article is about. It deals at length with unsuitable customization decisions.
To have a free market, you need a government, if only for 2 things: enforcing contracts, and defining and enforcing private property (yes, defining: you need to decide what to do with the not-at-all-obvious kinds of "intellectual" property, such as copyright, patents, and trademarks.). And to do just that, you need some kind of system, which will need people to run it. Full-time civil servants (that means taxes), or part-time volunteers, something.

Oh, and while we're at it, since our world revolves a lot around money we should define and enforce a monetary policy: who gets to create and destroy the money, and how.

And by the way, people are not fully informed, perfectly rational agents that can solve NP-complete programs in polynomial time. You will have market failures, and will probably need a way to deal with them as they come up. (Not dealing with them at all is also an option, but then, natural monopolies may eventually grow into Super-corporations, Neuromancer style —not the best kind of governance if you ask me).

While we may not need the kind of government we have right now, we do need some kind of governance. Because if you have none, well… the world won't dissolve into chaos, but some forms of governance will emerge anyway, and they won't be of your choosing.
Lengthy discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6731894 :

Renault ships a brickable car
with battery DRM that you're not
allowed to own
(boingboing.net)

That's old enough that it's no longer possible to contribute, but there are some interesting comments there.

Other contributions of the same story:

====

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6718341 :

Renault introduces DRM for cars
(techdirt.com)

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6723522 :

Renault introduces DRM for cars
(techdirt.com)

====

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6729800 :

DRM in Cars Will Drive Consumers Crazy
(eff.org)
> "The fastest method to execute is an empty method."

The fastest method to execute is an empty method that was never called.

The fastest method to execute is an empty method that was never called and never written.

The fastest method to execute is an empty method that was never called and never written and never planned.
I think it's part manual entry and part user generated content. If the site fails to answer your question, you'll be prompted to type in who you thought of, and it'll add them to its database. So it's quite likely someone already thought of your small time actresses and added them in.
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Bloomberg terminals.
$24,000 a year for a single license.
Ask HN: Looking for a co-founder for project with lots of work done already
Hi all,

I'm pivoting one of my long-term projects into a new company. I'm going full in on this. I have the support of an early-stage investor, and some early customers have signed up who are very eager to use the product even in alpha stage.

What I'm missing is a co-founder. I was a solo founder for many years, and that taught me some lessons... As I haven't found a suitable/available co-founder candidate in my immediate vicinity, I figured I should turn to HN.

The name of the company is Neonto. Have a look at the teaser site:

http://neonto.com

The road to this product iteration has been long. In 2010, I released the first version of a HTML5 animation/multimedia design app called Radi. It went to #1 on HN back then [1], and has also been posted a few times since.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2040844

Ultimately I failed to productize Radi. Big competitors emerged in this field soon after, but worse, the use case was unclear. I was modeling too much on Flash Pro and other animation tools, yet Radi also had web design and video features. I didn’t have actual customer need to drive development.

Neonto is based on the editor and animation core from Radi, but revamps the UI and back-end. It has a sharp new focus on mobile app UIs. I'm concentrating on content-heavy apps (rather than e.g. games). Neonto solves real problems in layout and interaction design across screen sizes, and produces lightweight native code for each platform.

So, would you like to be part of the next generation of mobile app design? If you feel like this is something where you could contribute, don't hesitate to get in touch (email in profile). Let's talk it over and see if we have a matching vision.

To be clear, I'm not looking for a minority partner, but a full co-founder. You'll get equal share in the company. I want to do this with someone who feels as strongly about its importance as I do.
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"In Britain, the country where e-commerce is most popular, about 13 percent of people do all or most of their grocery shopping online. Yet this only accounts for 5 percent of overall spending, suggesting consumers spend more when they visit a store."

I don't think you can draw that conclusion from the evidence. Perhaps the people who shop online are the ones who spend less - there isn't likely to be a linear relationship between spending and impulse buying, and people who spend less are possibly more likely to be the ones who go online first (no kids, relatively affluent, time poor seems a likely demographic). As someone who doesn't like being in a supermarket I went in, got what I needed, and got the hell out as fast as I could. I don't impulse buy because I'm focused on speed. I don't browse. When online shopping came along I was a very early adopter - I switched my supermarket brand choice so I could use it.
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That looks cool and all but please get Swype on board. I find it an indispensable part of mobile use nowadays and any US without it is seriously missing out.
IPhones have 76% market share in this country. And, it is not the US.
"Companies most at risk are Mondelez International, Mars Inc and Nestle, the top three candy makers, soda makers like Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, and magazine publishers like Time Warner and Hearst Corp."

All companies that arguably are doing nothing for betterment of humanity. Perhaps this Internet fad is a good thing.
Coincidentally, its creator is also an HN user: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2745694
After reading the comments, it seems that we germans shouldn't be known as "krauts", but rather as "bratwursts". Indeed, there is always time for one... :D
mhm..

- FirefoxOS is just web

- Ubuntu Phone is cool and gestures

- Windows Phone is pushed by Microsoft's money

- Jolla / Sailfish is ..

Sorry I don't see a killer feature :(
Funny thing. I understood your analogy just great. I just remembered all the situations, where we as a company were/are trapped with the CMS we've got.

So it worked for me as a editor gone code-writer as well as a editor gone conceptual project-lead.
Can you name a specific arbitrage opportunity because I wouldn't mind making some money.
How can it be easier to control an entity that has a monopoly over force and that requires you to convince 1 million people instead of 100 for any changes to happen?

Also, ruled by reason, really? Same reason that helped it decide to spy on all people and kill millions in bloody wars all over the globe? I mean, it's not just the US. If you look at history, no criminal organization, even the most bloodiest and craziest one, can compete with an average government in how many people it killed, tortured or imprisoned.
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Misleading title. You meant "iPhone got 76% of smartphone sales in October in this country...."
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The correct measurement is µm - micro meter.
Obviously a typo in the title. 300µm in the article.
> In my experience, the clojure community is not interested in promoting clojure for reasons of tribalism or vanity, but because they can indeed use it to produce better work faster.

Example needed. Cascalog?
I think we're actually in agreement :)
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Foursquare? Yeah, right... and Instagram is basically imgur with filters... Compared to peer-to-peer money, your examples aren't very good.
Learn some basic sysops on Linux. Start with using basic package management (apt-get), and then move on to learning how to configure apache (ssl, vhosts, vhost redirects, location, directive etc).

You can build on the first part easily if you switch to something like Ubuntu. Learning apache can only come if you force yourself to manage multiple virtual-hosts or sites. Handling apache is quite similar to using the htaccess file (which you might have used for redirects) except you have much more power in vhosts.
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In fact, more accurately, man doesn't search landfill:

"Why aren't I out there with a shovel now?
I think I'm just resigned to never being
able to find it."

Same story, different source, significant discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6809065
Corollary (from my fortunes file):

Deleted code is debugged code. - Jeff Sickel
Is the example code still right with the new file formats for this new crawl?
Have any thoughts/comments/feedback, I am here listening :)