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Funny, but not necessarily true. With PHP, I do as you say and spend, if I know the language, 1 hour max setting up a CRUD list/view/admin.

With Ruby, I have to spend, at least 3 months learning the concepts behind the Rails framework and what the article OP mentions just to get to that 20 to 30 minute mark.

If anything it's all meaningless, and what everyone should understand is that while the closer you are to the web server itself (CGI+PHP, Node.js, Classic ASP), you can quickly create any type of code, at the loss of organization and order.

In frameworks (criticism of Rails can also be attributed to Wordpress IMO) you have a much larger ramp up time learning the concepts and conventions, and once familiar, are able to LEVERAGE those patterns.

But don't bother me with PHP vs Ruby. I run SSI on nginx. It's not even in the same league as those two. BUT it's even easier to spin a basic 5 page website. All tools have their specialties.
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This is a high class problem to have! As mentioned above, this seemed to us to be an extreme corner case. To remain simple, we tried not to draft for every scenario (which was hard, believe me - lawyers do this by nature). It may require some patience on the part of the safe holder, but odds are that eventually a company will have a liquidity event.
This mental floss article is a year old.

http://mentalfloss.com/article/31932/chasing-cicada-explorin...
You're right--I've revised to convey my meaning correctly. Thanks for the correction!
An e-mail went out a few days ago saying people should be hearing back soon. I received a decision today.
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I'm seeing the same issue with other PSDs that generate Fs
A licence similar to a driving license seems like the way to go. It seems perfectly reasonable to require some training before being allowed a drone (for safety reasons). Each drone should have the electronic equivalent of a license plate for identification and if an owner is found to be using their drone in an illegal manner (laws to be determined...) then their license should be revoked.

There are incredible opportunities for doing cool things with drones, but a framework for managing their use seems perfectly reasonable to me.
The Chinese government announced yesterday that it would limit Chinese bank's ability to trade in Bitcoins. Markets are fickle.
As a non-white South African myself (Cape Malay - a descendant of Malaysian political activists exiled to Cape Town), I can confirm the legitimacy of this post. I have several family members who have strange names because the South African government officials at the time couldn't understand them so they just made up names for them.

My dad had a dead end job because even though he was more qualified than his boss, a non-white could not be promoted to a position held by a white person. Neither my dad nor any of my uncles were allowed to participate in National Cricket, Rugby or Football teams. This led to the very interesting problem where a large portion of the population even today refuse to support any of the National sports teams. You're more likely for example to find a New Zealand Rugby supporter among the older "coloured" (the official term) community, than one who supports the National team. Even today my parents do not support South African sports teams (football was always the exception, because it was regarded as a "black" sport).

I was part of the first group of non-white people allowed to attend a "white" high school. The racism was terrible at times, and it filled me with resentment for the first few years. Afterwards though, I started noticing how my peers were becoming more open to other cultures and ethnicities, and with that the resentment faded.

Ironically, I too for many years believed Mandela was a terrorist who killed civilians, partly because the zeitgeist of my teen years was rebelliousness, and partly because I highly skeptic of anyone held in such high regard. Thankfully, my adult years proved that I was just being naive and willfully ignorant. Mandela was certainly no terrorist.
that's like urban myth. I have dealt with some pwd dict before. Never saw that in practice. People are more clever than you thought, e.g. offset in all 4 directions randomly, align with consonant letters, you can get imaginative about permutations.
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Whitehead's opinions on education were somewhat mixed and eclectic, but an individualist he was not. He noted the pivotal importance of getting people to perform arduous tasks and conditioning them through education, as well as the teacher as this godlike authority figure who is the sole guide of a child's education. An anti-autodidact. In many ways, he promoted the master/slave dialectic.

you don't think that any of the army of educators would have caught wind of this nefarious plot?

That's the thing. It wasn't really nefarious to them. The upper class pretty much had a consensus that this was necessary. It started off as industrialization rapidly kicked off nearing the end of the 19th century (especially in the USA), and a way to breed a trustworthy yet disposable workforce was in order. It then went downhill from there.

Woodrow Wilson himself had this to say in 1909:

"We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forego the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks."
Mandela is absolutely distinct from Ghandi.

While Ghandi lived in South Africa, he wrote racist slander towards black (African) people, referring to them as 'kaffirs' (the N word equivalent in SA). Here's a quote:

"Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness."

Ghandi too was not perfect, and also experienced Apartheid (most notably when he was kicked off a train in Pietermaritzburg), and demonstrated against it in SA. Though I do not think he believed in equality for Indians with Blacks.
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I think that's in the sense of things like "the web will democratize publishing" by allowing anyone with a blog or twitter or a youtube channel or whatever to be a news source, writer, film publisher, etc.
Yeah redundancy is going to be expensive. Was your $7k+4k per server or was that for a pair?

It wouldn't hurt to use AWS as a backup though - if you're unexpectedly offline for 24 hours just fire up a big server that is affordable for a short burst.
True, it's not exactly fair to compare getting started with a language and getting started with a framework, especially one as opinionated as Rails.
Here are the Safe documents if anyone is interested.
http://ycombinator.com/safe/
> Why PHP continues to thrive in the age of the PaaS

Most companies/clients, particularly outside of the SV/SF bubble, value a working solution over technical elegance. They're not irrationally ideological about programming languages, and they don't want to pay $120,000/year or $125/hour to a developer with two years of experience.

Given the supply of developers of various skill levels who can build working solutions using PHP, and the number of existing commercial and open-source applications based on PHP, it's no surprise that PHP is thriving.

> But the question is, why should PHP still be easier to deploy than Ruby/Rails, Python/Django, Node/Express (or Metro)?

It's interesting that the author grouped Ruby, Python and Node with frameworks for his comparison to PHP sans framework.

Incidentally, I think one of the advantages of PHP is that a lot of PHP developers, especially those who have been working with PHP for some time, didn't get started with a framework. Heck, before there were mature frameworks, many PHP developers rolled their own frameworks and micro-frameworks, a valuable exercise.

Third party frameworks are great, but they can easily become a crutch, and when you don't know anything but the framework, they can be downright dangerous.

What percentage of Ruby on Rails developers who started their careers with Ruby on Rails are capable of building a moderately complex Ruby application without Rails?
Just a software glitch.
Anyone who would willingly forgo food for Soylent on any kind of ongoing basis should have their Homo Sapiens card revoked.

Eating healthy, delicious food (not mutually exclusive, for the record) is one of the simplest, most fundamental joys of existence.
Hipster alert: The definition of a hipster is someone who spends a lot of enregy trying to figure out what everybody else is thinking, just so s/he can think the opposite.

Why do you care -- or ever know -- if most Americans will despise you?

"How can you know if someone is a counter-cultural free-thinking rebel who doesn't care what anybody think? They'll tell everybody."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_external_defibrillato... -- the AED is worse in every way than a properly trained professional with the right tools, except for one way: its there, it sort-of works, and you can't beat something with nothing.

Requiring a professional is a flaw, not a virtue. It's particularly problematic in our industry, where the end-user and most of the people involved in the production are not professional programmers.
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China Says Banks Can’t Do Business in Bitcoin
By the same argument we should criticize and negatively judge the American Revolution as well.

This path of argument seems unable to acknowledge that there are times where "the law" is so unjust that you are left with no non-violent actions whatsoever. I think it's fine if you believe this, but you should be able to clearly say that you believe in nonviolence in all situations and that any deviation from that path is immoral.
It really depends on how serious you are about seeking inner peace.

The moment you say that something is "wrong" in your life is the moment you abandon the deepest (and, I think, most powerful) variety of tranquility.

You cannot categorize parts of life as "right" and "wrong" without discarding the general equanimity of true inner peace.

I think this is a common dilemma for Americans in particular, because the concept of success is so ingrained in our perspective of life that we cannot let go of it.

On the other hand, in the complete absence of right and wrong, words like complacency lose their meaning. Someone with true inner peace is not complacent per se, nor are they even indifferent. Instead, on a deep and abiding level, they are accepting and nonjudgemental.
That is if Strong AI is not just a myth. I think that intelligence is simply a process that determines behavior to accomplish a goal. The question becomes, what goals will people program these genius machines to accomplish?
I'm not sure if your reply was directed at me, but I specifically used the term "alright" because it is barely and subjectively positive.

I share many of these worries, but also realize that these things tend to have a momentum of their own. We can do what we can with our own offspring, but sometimes it is swimming against the tide.
Not all drones are for killing. Currently I'm in a team working on quadcopter drones to help with surf life saving/beach patrol.

Sounds like he's trying to prevent the democratisation of an upcoming technology.
> without worrying about ... backups

Bad idea. Extraordinarily bad idea. Of course, I'll gladly charge you $450 an hour to recover your data when you accidentally drop a production table. It's part of how I make a living.

> setting up iptables

i.e. setting up security groups - same solution, better gui. Someone still needs to understand what it's doing.

Elastic Beanstalk... sounds cool, but based on the "let you take over management when you're ready", it's still a EC2 instance under the hood that's just configured for you. Scale at all, and you're probably going to have to start concerning yourself with all those bits you've been able to ignore until then.

AWS' automated offerings are good, but if you're doing anything at scale, they're frequently not good enough. And my experience has shown me that the line is really really painful to cross when you get to it with a fully staffed team, let alone a sole developer.
I must admit I've never seen my system depending on swap, so I don't know how bad it is.

Just for fun, try deliberately creating a swap storm some time. Then try to recover from it :-). Do this on a system that doesn't have other users.
Google has inverted from "don't be evil" to "let's be evil". Why should governments have rights that the people don't?
I see what you meant.

Your proposal sounds more like copyright-for-ideas than patents. In such a system, why would you need to apply for a patent? Samsung copied your phone design? Sue them for that, holistically, rather than finding some arbitrary set of "inventions" that they infringed on. It sounds like the jurors mostly looked at things this way, anyway, when deciding who's morally right. Zynga probably wouldn't like the change, though.
Copywriter here.

Sometimes clients ask me to create slogans for their company. I screw around for a bit, generate a list of maybe 25 slogans, then present them with the 5 best.

I always have a favorite out of the bunch. A slogan that's so memorable, because it's so out of the ordinary. One that gets to the point, and really delivers the benefit of the client's product. And that slogan never gets picked. Business owners are afraid to stick out. So they pick the most tame slogan from the bunch.

Example: A web design company wanted to target a display ad to small businesses without websites. I wrote the ad with the headline: "If you're not online, you don't exist." Client changed this to "If you don't have a good website, we can help."

Most people don't know what they like, or they are afraid to admit it. So instead, they pick the same thing everyone else is doing. It simplifies making decisions. No feelings, no uncertainty. Just a quick Google of your competitors to see what they do.
Are you sure that it is fair to blame Mandela for what some parts of the ANC did while he was imprisoned? Did he have control over all of the factions then?
There's nothing wrong with professionals building tools for other professionals. PHP surely requires less activation energy for a tiny project or a new developer, but that doesn't mean Rails et al aren't providing useful options for full-timers.
These are good examples of information that you rationally choose not to learn. The second part of my question was whether you believe some third party should be able to require that the information be withheld from you even if you want to learn it.
I don't really have any helpful advice for this kind of app except don't neglect the Amazon App Store - there's less competition and a huge, quality audience that's easier to reach. Also don't neglect Windows etc, if you "get big" on any platform it might have a ripple effect.
Excuse me?

Is a Daily Telegraph writer, don't expect scientific literacy.

I remember reading an article about Fred Hoyle, in a copy of the Telegraph that I found on a train, where they described him as a 'famous astrologer', so them not understanding what a prime number is doesn't really surprise me.
I recently did a couple of tests with paid advertisement through buysellads. Actually it was not for a startup but for some affiliate link (Udemy courses with good discounts) and the result I got was very bad:

- a generic Udemy ad on a generic site: 10k impressions, 11 clicks, 0 conversion
- a specific course advertised on a niche newsletter: 1800 impressions, 15 clicks, 0 conversion

And for conversions I mean neither a sale nor a new signup into the system.
Correct, thanks for checking it out. But I've have to convert them first since I'm basically scraping millions of (unknown quality) tab text files (of relatively unknown tuning).

But I will def look into the intervals, as people have suggested.
So true. Now that I've used Linux for awhile I could never go back. Having so much software available so easily and quickly, convenient package managers that manage dependencies, automatically update, etc... is fantastic.
However, the "original" PNG image linked in the article does not contain the plain-text described in the article (at least, not visible in my hex editor). The pixels do contain some artifacts in the lower bits, though.
I'm impressed. Really. This should be a template for other companies to follow when opensourcing their stuff. While I don't use python Knowing that this lib is part of a service as heavily used as MailGun and that it's exactly the code you're using would give me a lot of confidence if I needed a tool like this.

The only thing not covered was that as a result of using a public codebase at the core of your app you've got to be extra careful in checking what's in each pull request... probably moreso than if they came from your employees.
Soylent is not a diet; it is a food product. I don't think you understand the problem they're trying to solve. I can't go online and order a supply of keto, can I?
I'm aware of this, and I think it's the reason that BTC will never replace any of the national currencies, but I think it still has a tremendous value for smaller-scale things and has room to get a lot more popular and widespread.
The "huh" is that if you multiply any two non-one numbers together, the result can not be prime since the two input numbers are factors of the resultant number.
I'm concerned about the macronutritient ratio... I mean, 50% carbonhydrates? Half of which (132g of 500g, according to the article) is maltodextrin (which has a higher glucemic index than SUGAR)? I don't consider a diet healthy if it consists of 25% sugar.

If they changed the ratio to perhaps 20/50/30 or similar and elimitated the sugar, I'd be interested.
Interesting project. Nothing that can't be done without a 3D printer though. Motherjones had an article[0] where the author built his own rifle using a similar method, without the fancy Makerbot.

Also, his point about 3D printers being the 1980s personal computers is off. They're a lot closer to the desktop home paper printers that came out in the 80s. Yes, they let you do something you couldn't do beforehand, but at much higher cost, much lower quality, and much slower than the processes used by industry. Just because I have a laser printer doesn't mean I should print copies of my own book to sell. Flyers for a party? Yes. 3D printers are the same. Print a common household item I'd buy at Walmart? Unlikely. Print a cover for the bottom of my old bike shifter that I can't find online? Yes.

[0] http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/05/ak-47-semi-autom...
Layer seems interesting but I think the reason XMPP ultimately succeeded was because of federation and a healthy open source ecosystem. We are drafting a federated, minimal knowledge push server design for privacy-minded chat apps: https://github.com/ChatSecure/ChatSecure-Push-Server/tree/ma... (a little out of date)
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The natural cycle continues. Young disruptors grow older and move for regulation and control.

If drones are outlawed, only outlaws will have drones.

What may be needed isn't laws and regulations, but a common understanding of what is and isn't acceptable for drones. There's not a lot of room on our planet; it's important for us to develop societal norms for where we want and don't want technology.

It's jarring to find popped helium balloons in the wilderness. I'd be sad and unhappy to see and hear drones flitting about our treasured mountains, and even in our city skies. We're tool-builders, but we must be careful with our tools.
I think your first two lines are a bit unfair. In the first line you say it takes you an hour while mentioning in passing already knowing the language.

In the second you say it takes 3 months because you have to learn the framework. Honestly if it takes you 3 months to understand rails well enough to do a CRUD app there is no way you're learning PHP well enough to do the same CRUD app in less time.
http://mentalfloss.com/article/31932/chasing-cicada-explorin...

From a year ago.
I don't know anything about the laws being enforced. My point was, it's hard to argue that "the moral thing to do" is to harm others or destroy property.
Yup, often PHP is the right tool for the job, however, in professional settings it is invariably the wrong tool for the job.

Just as you'd never want to use an AED at a hospital (unless every medical professional was unavailable)
Each Dell Peoweredge c6100 is around USD$ 1500 -- each server contains 4 nodes . Each node is a dual CPU server with its own RAID ,network port and IPMI port.I think only the power supply is shared with all 4 nodes. have 2 or 3 of these kind of gives a lot of redundancy. The CPU is kinda dated and slow though.
This works well if you want to start from a dynamic application: https://github.com/SimonSapin/Frozen-Flask
I'd like to ask him if he thinks big armies are more likely to exist when governments use taxation, fiscal policy, and conscription to fund and staff armies, or if things are "democratized."
I think it is pretty cool, however I think just having the plants start at desk-height is not as good as having them start near the floor - seems too artificial.

Maybe a desk that has a drawer or CPU stand or cable organizer, with the plants growing from the base of the desk.
Matt Cutts: How is the link structure between .gov (US) domains seen by Google?
Hi Matt,

I was wondering if you could provide some insight on an inbound link question? I'm specifically curious about the treatment of .gov domains.

An inbound link from one .gov to another .gov does not seem difficult to obtain. On the other hand, an inbound .gov link to a .com is typically much harder to obtain or 'earn'.

This ease of leveraging authority among government sites seems like a potential issue.

What are your thoughts?

Thanks in advance

-Tom
It just dawned on him that perhaps Schmidt's Google should have focused on improving drone technology instead of driverless cars.

Perhaps they could have made a ton of money, launching drones as a service for the likes of Amazon and the postal. Perhaps they should have monopolized the skies if the hobbiest drones werent interfering with the commercial prospect this technology offers.

Google is still in a good position to integrate this technology with their maps...

(Just thinking loud..)
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I meant that you show up at a monastery and say, "Hello, I'm here to be enlightened!" They say, "Yeah, we get that a lot. Well, we can help you with that. Let's start by having you get up early tomorrow morning and cooking some rice."

Then they channel all your seeking-enlightenment energy into other activities, until you hopefully someday realize there ain't any such thing. But perhaps that realization is another sort of "enlightenment".

I speak from no significant direct experience. I'm just pointing at the moon with my finger. :)
The time, effort, and additional steps in this case are:

a) negligible (you have to scan a QR code and then copy/paste the gift card code instead of typing in your CC)

b) they pay you for it!
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Can you elaborate? When I visited South Africa, a few white people used it to refer to the non-whites. I do not know if they were just trying to be descriptive or discriminatory. Perhaps it didn't mean what I thought it meant.