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IMO, there are two fairly easy ways to name your company:

1) Combine english syllables to come up with a fictitious word that sounds good. This is how Ninite was named and they even provide the source for the program they used: http://ninite.tumblr.com/post/620277259/how-ninite-was-named... There are some other tools to help you with this: http://wordoid.com/

2) Jam two words and/or numbers together. They can be somewhat or totally unrelated. Examples: 37Signals, RocketDog.

Neither of these techniques gets you a name that is related to your project (you can loosely relate to your project with the second technique), but I think that's the least important part. Mostly, you just need a good domain and to sidestep any trademarks. Using a single cool sounding word seems like about the worst angle you can try from a legal/financial perspective; no matter how obscure you think it is (e.g. town names, latin words), it's probably been used dozens of times by others.

One of my startup ideas was a company that did this for you. It's not especially hard to do anything of this but it is tedious. It's not a very good idea in retrospect.
The most likely and at the same time most scary option is intellectual dogfooding. They repeated their dogmatic stance so often that they have started believing in it.
Geez, I must be living under a rock. I thought 'teetotaler' meant tea drinker, and OP was asking whether you drank alcohol or tea.
To write a compiler (and not a interpreter) it's indeed almost impossible to reach the slowness of CPython. Especially because it's hard to create a complex language in just a weekend.
The alternative is non-memorable names. I can't tell you how many android-async-image-loader libraries there are. It's a lot easier to remember 'Picasso'. It's also a lot easier for me to Google for 'Picasso Android' and get relevant results.
What an absolute joke of an article.

Keep in mind that, unlike Windows and OSX, GNU/ Linux doesn't have a paid media arm to make bloggers turn security issues into a huge spectacle. With how vulnerable to malware and generally insecure Windows is, can you imagine what it would be like if the media applied the same level of scrutiny to it? You wouldn't be able to find a story on some online journal that wasn't about a Windows security hole.
Insecurity, basically. At some point during the last decade society kind of broke down, and the respect for human life was lost. I'm talking 12 year olds killing a store clerk in cold blood for 2 or 3 dollars, or worse [1]. This didn't happen just once; at some point there was a murder per day, in a country of three million people. The government, who are former terrorists [2] and based their campaigns on condemning the "repression" of the police, are ideologically incapable of being firm against all this (in fact, they're ideologically stuck in the 60s)

Another example: people trying to hijack a car stopped in a traffic light. In broad daylight. While a news crew was filming. And a policeman was standing 100m away: https://plus.google.com/+GabrielGambetta/posts/fbZo1YVLeet

They have also given too much power to the unions, to the point that they can legally steal a factory from their owners, for example (in a nutshell, occupying it until it goes bankrupt, and then assuming control "to save jobs") Also, just before their first term in power, Uruguay had just came out of a terrible economic crisis that affected the whole region; basically, Argentina fell, and Uruguay is too small and dependent to have avoided it (and the old government was blamed). During the last decade the whole region has improved, so the economic situation in Uruguay is quite good right now (and the new government takes credit). But the worst thing is the way they're squandering this money in sort-of-well-meaning but very badly implemented "social" policies, so when the "up" economic cycle turns into a "down" economic cycle and the easy money runs out, there will be no reserves, a disfunctional and violent society, truly pathetic education level [3],... it's a ticking bomb.

[1] http://www.elpais.com.uy/informacion/ninos-mataron-amigo-hor... (two kids, 11 and 14, killed their 11 year old friend with a machete, and then went playing football)

[2] http://www.taringa.net/posts/info/15613143/Mujica-el-terrori... http://diurnarius.com/jose-mujica-de-ladron-a-presidente/ http://www.periodistadigital.com/opinion/politica/2009/11/30...

[3] http://www.montevideo.com.uy/auc.aspx?220385
So therefore we shouldn't try? What should our goal be instead?
My response above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8369281
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I'm elite on SouthWest and Delta. I know SouthWest gives me a free ticket for my wife every time I book a flight. So I effectively have double the ticket value now. They also have shorter lines and earlier boarding (which on SouthWest means you can choose your seat, the seat or two with a blank space in front of it being the best choice) so I don't have to go to the airport as early.

Delta, similarly, gives shorter lines, free upgrades to first class based on availability (you can always get them if you do something odd like take the first flight out of Newark before the buses are running), and free standby and same day confirmed flight changes (just book the last flight of the day, go to the airport whenever you want, and use your free change). Free standby is really handy for illegal transfers too. E.g. Fly to LA then hop a plane leaving immediately - officially you can't do it because there has to be a certain time window for you to transfer, but with free standby they'll put you on the plane as long as you are at the gate and there's a seat.

So a lot of times you get things that would cost a lot more (companion ticket, first class, etc.) and other times you just get some of your time back (shorter lines, illegal transfers).
Pretty standard for ASP.NET Web API + Angular projects.
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It's absurd because no other country does it that way - the United States, despite the rhetoric, treats its own citizens worse in this aspect than any other country the rest of the civilized world.

If other countries behaved the same way, it wouldn't be so ridiculous- but they don't, so it is.
flyertalk.com.

Bring a stiff drink and lots of spare time.
There's a difference between making a profit and maximizing it at the expense of everything else

They're aligning rewards for their loyalty program with the behaviors of customers not trying to game the system. And you criticize this?

Wal-Mart employees utilizing $6.2 billion dollars of public assistance is an example of this.

And exactly upon whom do you place the blame for unemployed people who use public assistance? How much credit does Wal-Mart get for the delta increase of public assistance that would be spent if they didn't employee people?
I feel this is a trend now with new projects, it's also the case in Node.js, Go and new Python packages.

This can go as absurd as the package named "a" in npm (https://www.npmjs.org/package/a) which is used by a lot other packages. I also had some trouble to figure out what each package is suppose to do when using RoR.

However, I would not say it's necessary easier in older languages when I see the amount of weird acronyms used in the Java world.
At least there's the option of booking something "more expensive". Some places require that employees book the cheapest fare no matter what. Then you get situations like an employee making 150K/yr sacrificing an entire work day traveling in order to save the $50 more it costs to fly direct or out of a closer airport. The hidden costs aren't taken into account at all, but I guess it might be easier to enforce a blanket policy.
> The last point is essential. Leff told me about a mileage run he took in 2003. United ran a promotion where its elite fliers could get five-times bonus miles, instead of the double miles they were ordinarily entitled to. So he flew round-trip to Singapore for $700 and pocketed around 100,000 MileagePlus miles, then enough to redeem for a round-trip business class ticket to Europe.

Last time I looked, domestic one-way business class reward seats were going for 25,000 points on MileagePlus, and that's their "Saver" reward, which isn't available as much as their "Standard" reward, which is 50k each way for business class.

So it sounds like United is trimming your ability to accrue miles, but also requiring more miles to earn a seat.
This has nothing to do with thinking taxes are evil. This has everything to do with the fact that the US tax regime on overseas Americans makes life miserable for those expats. Oftentimes you finish up paying thousands of dollars for expensive tax help* only to demonstrate that your tax liability is $0 because foreign tax credits cancel out your foreign tax obligations. Besides all the difficulties with opening bank accounts as noted.

The solution is simple: the US needs to join the remaining 99% of the developed western world and switch to residence-based taxation instead of the current citizenship-based regime. In other words you tax people within your physical borders only (citizen or not), but suspend their tax obligations when they leave for as long as they leave, unless they still have income-producing assets within the borders of your country.

* Taxes overseas are not something you can just whip up Turbotax to handle. You oftentimes need to reconcile foreign tax statements with your US ones to compute tax credits. Worse, the foreign tax ones are rarely due on the same deadlines as the US ones, and foreign currencies need to be converted and so forth. The whole thing is difficult for most people but almost completely unworkable for entrepreneurs owning corporations overseas, owing to the need to file obscure and complex Controlled Foreign Corporation tax forms. Budget around $5,000 in tax prep fees per corporation for those, even if your corporation is a dormant LLC with no money passing through it.
Economies run in parallel, not in series. As I pointed out elsewhere, this success is likely to attract a lot of outside investment to India as other countries and firms will want to take advantage of India's low-cost space expertise (and possibly avoid dealing with the US government and its complex technology-transfer rules). So spending $100 million demonstrating your space capabilitiies is a fantastic deal if it results in billions flowing into the country, which I confidently predict it will.
It's no longer compatible with jessie/sid either. precise and saucy versions depend on libprotobuf7 (wheezy has it too), trusty - on libprotobuf8 and jessie has libprotobuf9.
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> WGS84 is not a projection but just a reference ellipsoid used for distance calculations along earth's surface.

Fair enough, it only handles a single GCS and no PCSs.

WGS84 is more than just a datum, it is a GCS. It's also used for more than just distances; it defines a mean sea level used for elevation as well.

WGS84 is also used to mean EPSG 4326, hence why I asked like I did.

> There are many independent tools available to perform such projections if you need to draw a map or convert to a Euclidean coordinate system

Sure there are, but if I can't import EPGS 4269 (NAD83, used by the census), EPGS 3857 (Spherical Mercator), a state plane, or a UTM data source without first converting it, then I need to know that.
I was told by a friend who's getting U.S. citizenship you have to take an oath renouncing other citizenship.. here it is:

"“I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen…” from the Oath of Allegiance "

http://www.newcitizen.us/dual.html

apparently it is not binding:

" the oath has never been enforced to require the actual termination of original citizenship"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_nationality_law#c...

Edit: can you ask your family if they took that oath, or is the information obsolete? Until now, I thought it was an actual requirement to renounce other citizenships.
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The Perl 6 project is always happy about doc contributions. Currently we have a specification, which is aimed at compiler writers: http://perlcabal.org/syn/ and then the beginning of some user-facing documentation: http://doc.perl6.org/

"Translating" specification documentation into user-facing documentation would be very helpful. For questions, feedback and getting started, it's best to reach the community through IRC: http://perl6.org/community/irc
"first he needs to fix a few things in the country".
No. that way you could never make progress. You promote WHILE improving/fixing things.
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Cofounder of Sendwithus -- I just wanted to give an additional shout out to some of the amazing angel investors included in this round. Full details on AngelList (https://angel.co/sendwithus).

I think it shows how funding in the valley has changed when a company founded and based in a tiny Canadian city (Victoria, BC) can grow like this.
Ruby does this too. Thor, God, bluepill, and pony all come to mind.
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And make sure to keep this open in another tab: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/glossary.php
Cassandra was used at Twitter[0] to store quite a lot of time series data.

A typical production instance of the time series database is based on four distinct Cassandra clusters, each responsible for a different dimension (real-time, historical, aggregate, index) due to different performance constraints. These clusters are amongst the largest Cassandra clusters deployed in production today and account for over 500 million individual metric writes per minute. Archival data is stored at a lower resolution for trending and long term analysis, whereas higher resolution data is periodically expired.

[0]: https://blog.twitter.com/2013/observability-at-twitter
Saw that one two, seems its another guy doing a full scan
> Two dimensions. The commands are designed primarily with Earth geometry

Earth has elevations:)
Was China any better when they headed in the same direction a few decades ago?
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Is a weird SF/Silicon Valley cognitive dissonance required to say that 100% automated software "communication" is "establishing a personal connection"? The fact that an algorithm asks me to come back after I stop frequenting a restaurant doesn't strike me as personal, just kind of overbearing and HAL 9000-esque.

Or a cashier reciting my name after reading it off a prompter. Safeway has been doing that for years and I don't feel a personal connection just because they're tracking my every move and making me well aware of it on a daily basis.
That is special. I had a fun time parsing that. I mean that genuinely.
It looks to be a small VC firm founded in Vermont. I don't recognize the players off-hand but I do recognize the organizations they're affiliated with.

Vermont has a very small, active (activist, even) business community...they tend to like to grow things at home.
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It does seem loyalty to an airline would decline if not rewarded. Recent changes reduce the reward and likely undermine loyalty. But how much do carriers care at this point?

Two factors likely contribute to policy decisions of the airlines. Mergers produce less competition, and secondly, it's quite noticeable over the last couple of years that every flight is packed full.

Consequently, a shortage of seats assures carrier income which makes loyalty much less relevant, in particular loyalty that's tightly linked to miles traveled.

OTOH loyalty programs connected to credit cards are probably more profitable to airlines, and in today's world more effective in maintaining loyalty too.
Radare2 project needs good documentation too http://rada.re/y/?p=documentation
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I'm curious -- is FastCGI vulnerable as well?

My understanding was that although regular CGI respawns the command interpreter every time the web server is queried, FastCGI reuses the same command interpreter and just updates the environment.
Just curious, which browser engine does it use?
Dear lord. It must take forever to get up to speed on a codebase like that.
Hah... Almost looks like the programmer started out trying to create an entry for obfuscated C competition but then pivoted midway when s/he realized it could be commercialized.

Specially loved this comment:

// remove more clutter
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Option 2: spammy links elsewhere pointed to my site.

And I do mean spammy, as in pure spam. Almost all came from foreign language sites, and would be in the form of mysite.com as the link and Louis Vuitton|Fancy Watch Brand|Viagra|Etc as the display text. At no point was my site ever compromised.

The kicker is it's unknown if these links were actually helping my site at some point, and the penalty was simply a reflection of the links being devalued.

@vdaniuk - Totally with ya, but I've actually done that already. In fact, a 301 actually transferred the penalty from the old site to new back in 2012!

I'm literally the worst SEO ever, but in my defense I used a 301 to create a smooth transition for my existing users (which number in the thousands). I had no idea that a 301 would be used against me like that.

I guess from my point of view then, the objections to changing brand/identity are:

a. My brand is something I work hard on, and changing it is confusing for my users, and difficult and time-consuming from a business standpoint (SSL, taxes, etc). What's more...

b. My deepest apologies if I'm wrong on this, but I've heard that even if I do change brands, Google has actually made it clear they may follow webmasters who've been penalized, not just the domains they ran.

Now it potentially becomes this bizarre cloak and dagger world of hiding from Google, something I'm simply not comfortable with. I'm proud of my past.

c. There's been, and I hate that I know this stuff but I do follow the topic closely now, but I've heard that new web site remain in something called the sandbox for much longer now. God I hate that I even said that as I deplore SEO stuff, but starting a new site simply is no guarantee that rank will be restored. Not to mention the aforementioned costs of setting up a storefront, building the site, possibly being targeted for a new penalty for who I am, and so on.

But yes, at some point it may very well come down to starting a new site...again.
There are plenty of cases where Google puts their product right under your search, then the results. So they are effectively taking the first search rank for themselves. You can call it whatever you want, but putting your item right above the top item is really just making your item the top item. Search "stock yahoo" and the first thing right under your search is a Google Finance summary and a link to Google Finance. Then comes the real first result, which is Yahoo Finance. If Google didn't insert their product right under your search, Yahoo would be the top result and receive an immense traffic boost.
have a look at https://dalmatiner.io/ I think it's used here https://project-fifo.net/
Giving up bread for circuses. It makes sense; the marginal cost for adding another audience member to a circus approaches zero.
Nice tip, but people are fairly lax about LinkedIn because they don't get a lot of SPAM, and they don't get it due to one's LinkedIn reputation is valuable. Spammers are shunned.

The site offers quite a few ways to reach people on their time. Using those makes more sense than emailing people does, IMHO.
This might be a dumb reason, but I stopped using FiveStars because it was just such a hassle. The card interfered with the other NFC cards in my wallet, and eventually started showing up as unregistered when I did try to use it. In the months that I was using it, I earned exactly zero rewards at the venues that I was using it at.
What?? Even if one accepts the tendentious leftist screed for the purposes of argument (which I will do here), this isn't even remotely like Wal-Mart. The traditional Wal-Mart complaints are that they don't pay employees enough or that they compete with other businesses too effectively. (Occasionally, the complaint is that they are willing to pay suppliers too little.)

This airline complaint is that customers who have been explicitly trying to game the system by doing things like purchase $500 airline tickets can't get the free trips or upgrades they want as readily as they could before. It cheapens your anti-Walmart rhetoric to put this in the same class of "oppression". Why would you do such a thing?
In the README it looks like using the ObjC AFNetworking is suggested if one wishes to do multipart http requests, I assume this is up to date and Alamofire doesn't support this at this time?
Ah, right, Go is M:N threaded, so the scheduler runs multiple goroutines on a shared POSIX stack, mostly unused until calling out to C code. Presumably, then, only Go code can yield.
My eyes went to this immediately:

"..outdated softwae at America's largest home improvement retailer"

Article lambasting Microsoft for not reviewing their product enough before it gets sent out, sends out a product that clearly wasn't reviewed enough.
http://www.ncsociology.org/sociationtoday/v21/merit.htm
http://valleywag.gawker.com/the-myth-of-silicon-valley-merit...

As for what our goal should be instead: equal pay for equal work.
isamuel explains it well - there are other benefits though. Priority boarding is usually handed out along with priority luggage, priority check-in, and sometimes priority security.

All of those are hugely valuable, especially stuff that saves you time at the airport. A huge problem with air travel is that airports are located usually far away from anything of consequence, and the requirement to arrive absurdly early (to navigate luggage, check-in, security, etc) adds huge chunks of time to a flight.

I have priority with United, but I still try to board late - I hate being stuck in a shitty tin can - but the rest of the benefits are enormously pleasant.
I'd recommend OpenTSDB. Using a 11 node hadoop cluster on m1.xlarge nodes in Amazon, (2 name, 9 data), I can ingest a sustained rate of ~75,000 time series datapoints per second in an HBase table.

The upside is that OpenTSDB scales really well with hadoop cluster size, so you can just scale it up to handle more load.

The downsides are that their data schema and query format are optimized for data efficiency, not speed or flexibility. It's really easy to refine a search for a particular metric by filtering on tags, but it's really hard to do any sort of analysis across metrics, so you have to write your own glue on top of that which fetches the datapoints for the metrics you care about, and does its own aggregation.
Along with that keyboard, your B&B looks nice. :)
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When I was flying weekly as a consultant, I was loyal to United. I was only in the job for six months but in that time I racked up about 150k United miles. I redeemed them for a first-class ticket on Lufthansa from Denver to Berlin and Zurich.

I also churn credit cards for the miles and hotel points. Next month I'm flying to Tokyo, Taipei and Hong Kong on Cathay Pacific and Japan Airlines in first class and Eva Air in business, staying at the Park Hyatt Tokyo and Conrad Hong Kong.

Then in January I'm flying to Vietnam, again in first class on Cathay and JAL, with free stops in Hong Kong, Beijing and Tokyo.
The volunteer community could do a much better job.