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For Google, Twitter, and Facebook, the main reason is that there are fewer and more conservative investors in the UK. Google and Facebook in particular seemed super risky at first, and were only able to raise money from angels, even in the Valley.

Microsoft is a different case. They're a generation older, and didn't rely on investors. They were in the US because the microcomputer revolution happened mainly in the US. The reasons for that are complicated, including the fact that the British government interfered with (in both the British and American senses) the British computer industry, and that getting rich was effectively banned in the UK at the time the startup was being invented in the US.
Not really. If I had a Pre and was using it with iTunes, Apple intentionally crippling it would make me less likely to consider Apple products in the future. Come to think of it, it's having that effect on me anyway, even though I'm not affected at all.

Apple is certainly within their rights to cripple their consumer applications in any way they want, but it does not make me think they're looking out for my best interests as a user.
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Totally forgot about FogBugz on Demand, that mostly explains how the 'shared' hosting will end up working (though doesn't FogBugz use mysql?)
"The reported accuracy is simply the cumulative total number of errors divided by the number of steps."

Use a moving average.
I use:
m <-- m - (2/t) (m - x_t)
when estimating the current training error.

1/t would be the exact historical average. 2/t gives more weight to recent events, which is good when your distribution is non-stationary (as is the case when your model is changing). With a constant learning rate (independent of t) you get an exponential moving average.
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Not so sure about that. It was rather obvious that the discussions about "Silverlight only" would overshadow the release of the video at least in all the technical circles. Offering the videos in more than one format - so people with Silverlight could have gotten advanced features while others still could have watched it would have been a lot better marketing.
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That is exactly how ipf found itself removed from OpenBSD and replaced with pf. The author tried to change the licence to "anything except GPL," which was reegarded as an inacceptable non-free license by the OpenBSD project.
He has stocks in the companies he's donating to to find a cure for malaria.
Great technical book postmortem! I've also gone through the painful process of writing a technical book and I agree with everythig he says.

And seriously, never, ever, think about writing a technical book for the money.
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Calling what Facebook does "per user customization" is a big understatement. Nobody except your (relatively) tiny circle of friends ever sees the data you upload to Facebook, that's why they store petabytes of data and StackOverflow only has 48 GB of them.
Oh come on. I've been using laptops for 15 years, and all of the screens have been fine for programming work. (even the monochrome ones) The 6-bit display on my MacBook is clearer and crisper than the machine I had before that, and that machine was better than the one before it. Yes, it's not a patch on my twin Dell 2408WFP's (which are 8-bit), but so what?! It's not "fuzzy and washed out" by comparison - that's a ridiculously hyperbolic statement! No, I don't do colour-accurate work on my laptop, and nor would I expect to.

I do agree with the sentiment that it is disingenuous of Apple (and almost everyone else in the industry) not to list the bit depth of their displays, though.
I have problems with my connection pretty often and mostly that's when i play games - when i'm offline.
I have a data cap on my Internet connection. Also, a broadband connection in India is usually 256kbps (kilobits per second, not kilobytes). I myself have a 512kbps connection.

Since broadband penetration here is not very good, people who travel a lot and need to be online most of the time use mobile Internet, which is much slower and costs much much more.

So, what do you mean by "today's Internet"?
If it hadn't been Silverlight, someone would be saying "see, even Bill Gates doesn't think it's good!" Damned if you do, damned if you don't. I find this a really frustrating critique.
Yeah, it's a pretty old trick. I recall someone showing it off on #perl in about 1997.
For the curious: This is available on the 99¢ Classics app on the iPhone, and it looks beautiful there.
Well we've all been there ;-)

Still think of the HTML in the same vein has producing JSON, XML, etc. The CSS is then just the design logic maintained (hopefully!) by the designer.
No one can transfer to another a right which he himself does not possess.
German blows up apartment while trying to fix airbed 
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There are some valid points in this article, but the overtones of someone whinging about a free product "grinds my gears"

At some point did we come to expect perfection from a company that largely offers unprecedented services for free?

Take twitter as an example, its new and full of problems, no where near perfect. Yet all their issues are blindly written off as teething issues, even though we pay the same amount to use it as google.

Personally, I applaud googles efforts. There is a reason the tech savvy choose their products over others, because they are the best of the bunch, especially in the free arena.
The only lawyers I know wish they were building tech startups. Might be a symptom of the culture here in the valley.
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TDD doesn't help prevent breaking things when refactoring, automated testing does

In that section he's complaining specifically about the type of tests that TDD results in -- that they strongly tend to test for totally unrealistic bugs, structural crap that would only possibly come up when writing the code from scratch.

He's not anti-test, he's anti-test-first.
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IANAL, but here's my bit of non-legal advice -- DMCA them.

We once nuked a Romanian cloner who copied our app -- our lawyer wrote a DMCA complaint to Google, ShareIt and his hosting company. As a result, the cloner was thrown out of Google, and ShareIt / Element5 blocked all his products (some of them were clones of other authors' apps).
Really, you're better off not using any block-level mirroring at all! At scale it makes much more sense to store each (2^24-27) chunk of data on at least 3 independent servers in each facility that has a copy of the dataset (see GFS).
Hey Sutro, the first part of that is a fair enough comment. Testing's great for the problems it solves, and we should simply be aware of when it's applied in inappropriate ways.

But I did want to bring up an issue with the second part of your comment, TDD (Test Driven Douchebags), you are emperors without clothes. That added very little positive contribution to the conversation, and dragged your comment's overall value much lower than it should have been.

Just to point out a line from the guidelines...
When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is an idiotic thing to say; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."
It'll be interesting to see what journalism is all about when the dust settles and we figure out how (if it's possible) to make it profitable online.

It's not clear yet if journalists will go the way of the elevator operator, and I wish anyone brave enough to go into the field the best of luck.
Requires a clean install? Is this really the state of the art in the Windows-world?
Wow this is disturbingly awesome. It's like reading People magazine. Turn the brain off and just stare.
Can you name some companies in which he has stocks ?
He is doing something good. Appreciate it if you can.
And hopefully you know that he has promised to give away most of his wealth to charity.
Even if it requires silver light, ain't it better than not
having the videos available to you at all ?
Also, it is a part of windows research team work. If google
can force you to not use ie, why can't windows research team
force you to use their technology ?
And this is my general observation. People liking linux or
similar *nix systems, take it too personally, and start
cribbing at anything and everything microsoft does.
It Doesn't matter to them if it is actually good stuff.

Well, I would anyways want you to substantiate your claim
that bill gates has shares in those drug companies and that
he is actually making more money from investing in those
companies than the charity he is giving away on those drugs.
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It's way crazier than that: Google has the full text of the web stored in RAM three times over (think about how snippets work on SERPs), in each of the dozens of DCs used for search around the globe.

Think about how epically huge the indexes are into all that data...
I will recommend http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_per_action
http://www.roninapp.com/site/signup
vs.
http://www.net2invoice.com/Select-Plan.aspx

shows better your claim
Just curious, what law where they breaking?
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pg wrote an excellent article on "Why Startups Condense In America" http://www.paulgraham.com/america.html
So did Apple when iTunes first came out. They'll make the deals and resolve each territory step by step.
There should really be a <!--[if !IE 6]> around that div. ;-)
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A bit far for me, but I highly recommend it. I had a great time at the one I gave a talk at a few years ago. Of course, PDX in the summer is way better than SJ, but it's still a good conference.
While it's certainly lame to find that somebody has cloned your application, I don't think you should spend any time worrying about these guys.

Your Business is the important thing to think about, and there's nothing these guys can do to touch that. They can't duplicate the marketing you've put in, the goodwill of your established customer base, or your reputation in general. All they can do is put out an application, and start from scratch just like you did back when you launched. You executed well. Chances are they won't.

As developers, we tend to think in terms of code, so seeing a feature-by-feature clone of our software is hard to take. Trust me though, if you're at all successful you'll see plenty more of these clones popping up. Think of how many Basecamp and Fogbugz clones are out there. 37 Signals and Fog Creek are not in the least way threatened by them, and don't spend even a minute fretting about them. I'd advise you to follow their lead.
Space isn't really big at all when you think in geological rather than individual scales. It probably only takes a couple of thousand years post-Apollo to colonize dozens of stars.

The real reason we don't see aliens is probably contemporaneity.

Although in that context I have another remark. The Drake formula, often brought up in these discussions has a major omission: it doesn't account for multiple intelligent species over the total lifespan of a planet. I don't see why, a couple of million years after humanity's extinction, another intelligent species could arise and go through the whole space-flight thing again.

A planet like Earth could have a typical cycle:

0.0 GA: formation

3.0 GA: bacteria

5.0 GA: intelligent species 1

5.1 GA: intelligent species 2

5.2 GA: intelligent species 2

5.3 GA: intelligent species 3

...

8.0 GA: oceans boil away, parent star going manic

9.0 GA: destruction due to parent star going kabloom
Bad security does not mean Twitter deserves to have it's data stolen.

Break in to show Twitter it can be done, maybe publicly prove you did it for internet love (if you're into that sort of thing); leaking everything you could get your "leet" hands on is unnecessary.
Misleading title! I thought it was a call to close universities that only teach J-ava to their CS students :)
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It will look identical assuming the 262k colors monitor reduces the gammut using the same method used for that image.
20 cars? That goes to 1000-2000 per car, which is by far the cheapest way I've heard of to make cars carbon neutral.
...high marks is an indication of a person's servileness?

It's no less preposterous than taking high marks as an indicator of intelligence.

Please, can we ease up on the machismo when discussing what makes a great developer [?] The best metaphor I can come up with is the overly muscular guy at the gym...

Gym Guy might not be all that bright, and has some glaring interpersonal deficiencies, but he does seem to be the polar opposite of servile.
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Not "Silverlight" is the problem, but "Silverlight exclusive". How hard would it have been to put up an alternative webpage with other formats for people which don't want or can't install Silverlight? The answer is certainly - not hard at all. Not doing so makes them just looks bad when they could have looked good so easily.

edit: Hm, do you think that would be hard? We offer our videos in several formats and I know lots of other people doing that and I don't see the problem with that. Run it through a converter and add another link...
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I studied at the VUB and liked it a lot. Lots of focus on programming languages and general principles.
(Brussels)

http://www.vub.ac.be/english/
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I honestly can't remember the last time I even used Yahoo. Am I alone in this or is this common ?
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"You have been mislead by a vocal minority and are using firefox, which is clearly an inferior web browser to IE6. " <-- Good one :)
I'm not sure people didn't know that forest fires did that. For hundreds of years aboriginal people used fires to manage the land.

The idea that we can "control nature" (born of the scientific advances of the Victorians) convinced people that we could build near/in forests that would traditionally get swept by fire every 30 years or so. It's quite arrogant that we still build there!

While this does fall into the mad category I'm all up for a little mad thinking if it generates new ideas.

The oceans are a great resource that we barely understand.
I think you'd have tons of undesirable side-effects. For instance, anyone with a prior history of an illness could never ever get affordable health care. With car insurance, I can understand the principle (bad drivers pay more), but I just don't think it's ethical to let sick people pay (significantly) more than healthy people.
Forget intelligent guesses--what about the profit to be made from handing some control over to machines. Put a machine in charge of making tiny price changes (and reacting correctly to the resulting changes in demand) to blindly suck every last util of consumer surplus. We're trading some savings now for a permanent information advantage.

edit: I'm sounding a bit like Art Bell here. to bed!
Okay I've sleepily written a Ruby wrapper around the initial list you sent me, Ruby folks can get the code here:

http://github.com/oftenvoid/donuts/tree/master

TODO: would obviously be to move to a dynamic list at some point. Also, each domain is stored as ascii text, so it would probably make sense to hash them, etc.

Tasks for another day... :)
I only deactivate accounts, never delete them. My users typically come back after a year or so (it's a webgame, so it has its own kind of audience).
It's certainly less stressful on my wrists for me. I can now move the pointer all over the screen but just wriggling two fingers over a range of about an inch. My wrist and arm are always in a resting position when trackballing, and left clicking with my thumb feels easier than with my forefinger.
Yahoo has been my homepage since '96. I'm oldschool.
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This isn't a clever way to update to lynx, or to send firmware updates to a Mars rover (that would be really cool use case). It's for Google Chrome, the browser that Google built to handle the next generation (read as: bandwidth hungry) of web applications. Besides that, the browser update download typically happens in the background, so even if it is slow, I'd bet that the difference between 70k and 700k is still negligible.
It depends on distance. 1 mile, 6:30 min/mi, half marathon 7:40 min/mi.

There's quite a good formula that Pete Riegel came up with to predict your speed over a certain distance: T2 = T1 x (D2/D1)^1.06. There's a caculator on this page: http://www.runnersworld.co.uk/news/article.asp?UAN=1681. It's been pretty accurate for me, YMMV.
A quick stylistical advice for you: calling someone you don't like or respect by his or her surname is just not very good manners and not very good style. If you want to express your antipathy in writing regarding the person you're writing about, call him Mr. Smith or Mrs. Jameson and not Smith and Jameson - everyone will understand your feelings but you will still give them basic courtesy and respect, which, in turn, will make your readers take your writing more seriously.
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Yahoo! still sees itself as a "media company". Poor things.
Even on your example of a typical Indian 256kbps circuit, a 700k update is only about 20s.

http://www25.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=700+kilobytes/256+kbps

And it's going to happen in the background anyway. jQuery (as per jQuery.com) is nearly 20k minified and gzipped. So they have gone from 35 jQuery downloads to 3.5 jQuery downloads. The 10x factor is impressive, but in absolute terms I don't think it's really that noticeable.

"Today's Internet" is the one with jQuery, YouTube, Netflix streaming, last.fm, Flickr, and GMail. It's the one where most of us can get multiple mbps, or at least several hundred kbps, to our homes. It's the one where we dont notice the difference between 70k and 700k. It's actually quite nice. :-)
I don't really care about the claims. I'm more interested, like the singularityhub, in personal fitness research. Does anyone know of any resources on the topic? Even good phone apps or tracking programs would be cool.

I'm interested in the place where health, science, and startups combine.
Could you play Quake with it? (I am using Dvorak already.)
sorry, no I don't use flickr. I run my own gallery... (gallery2), it's open to complete strangers as well.
I consider myself an X-File TDD'er: I want to believe.

Having said that, articles that are titled "Cram your X up your ass" don't pass the conversational sniff test with me. That's not the way you talk to strangers. So either you have some kind of emotional problems, nobody taught you how to express yourself in writing without sounding like you're seven, or you're trying to manipulate me through hyperbole.

Shame. Bet there was some good material in there somewhere
This discussion is ridiculous. Zed is completely within his right to release any code he wants under whatever license he wants.

First of all how many of us deploy our applications using Mysql on Linux (both GPL'ed projects). It's not an issue. Lamson is generally for server applications. If you use it you don't need to release your application as GPL. Come on.

From what I've seen of lamson, most apps based on it will run separately from a web application and often be quite small. If your Lamson project gets large and you want to release it, what is wrong with GPL for that?

Secondly, what is wrong with Zed actually trying to make a living. Why is it so wrong for him to want to capitalize on what looks like a great project to pay his rent. When was that a crime. Those of you in salaried jobs who complain about this should be ashamed of yourselves.

When you're a freelancer like Zed you have to hustle and thats exactly what he's doing. MySQL is offered Dual License together with many other projects. I don't know how successful this has been nor how successful it will be for Zed, but he's got a right to try.
You don't even need that. Silverlight 3 and Flash both support H.264+AAC in MP4.
Sorry to do this, but I felt I have to explain the joke, what that guy meant was indent itself, that's why the line he wrote came like code,

like this

that was his joke :) and sorry for ruining anyone's aha! moment.
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*Note .dll means dynamic link library and .exe is a file name extention meaning an executable file.
I don't think you can really give him a point for the inefficiency remark; If something radically changes, and you haven't any automated tests, then you're going to have to manually test the changed code and anything related that it will impact. If the change is something core to the app, then this will mean manually testing the whole thing.

If you had a bunch of tests you could just re-run, then re-testing the entire system becomes trivial (it's a given that you'd need to rewrite the tests for the changed parts, but if your tests are written well, then you won't need to rewrite them all).