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Even if the stuff about not being able to look at the source was true, they're testing against RubySpec tests which are written by people who can and do look at the source, so this post seems nonsensical.

edit: on a reread I notice the author actually disses RubySpec as being a "long way from completion" and then praises IronRuby for meeting 97% of the same (allegedly limited) tests.
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A friend of mine send me an invite about 3 or 4 days ago, it hasn't arrived yet. Is that normal?
Chile Wants Your Poor, Your Huddled Masses, Your Tech Entrepreneurs
You're doing just fine, the voting system is on the blink, Paul Graham (the owner of this site) is working on it see here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=871202

In short, your votes are registered, but are not always counted towards the credits of the thing you have voted on.
And the menu is is the wrong place.

And Ctrl is used instead of Cmd.

It's a weird app for us on Mac.
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NASA put up a twitter feed for LCROSS as it was approaching. Check out its last words: http://twitter.com/LCROSS_NASA (It's top-posting, so I put a chronological version here: http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/174096756... )
I'd certainly like to visit Chile at some point. It has a wide range of landscapes and in general looks like an interesting place.
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> I wonder if any of these has been used on >1000 node cluster?

1000 nodes is a _lot_. Facebook's inbox search Cassandra cluster was at 150 nodes 6m ago; probably around 200 now given their growth trend -- so unless you have more data than FB you probably don't need to worry too much. :)

IIRC the largest OSS bigtable-clone cluster is Baidu's at around 120. (maybe 150 now?) So same ballpark really.

> they don't support range scan efficiently either

Cassandra does.

> A proper Bigtable implementation is much harder

It's actually much easier to get something that works when all your hardware goes well with the bigtable single-master model; it's just that having those single points of failure is a bitch (as even google with their vast engineering resources and 3 year head start is still working out, as in the appengine outage a couple months ago -- http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine/msg/ba95ded9...). Once you put the engineering in, the fully distributed model is much better.

(For those following along: I'm a Cassandra developer; vicaya is a developer of hypertable, a bigtable clone.)
What's the 10,000 ft summary of how Riak is different from Dynomite, PowerSet's Dynamo-clone-in-Erlang?
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you want a _recent_ videcard, not an _another_ one. most, if not all, $100 gfx cards have two outputs, and the newest AMD offerings ($300 range) have - you might want to sit down - six.
Of course! I'd like to hear about them.

Btw, I don't consider using some of the most popular web2 properties as an example to be cherry picking. I'm curious to see your examples nonetheless.
I have a suspicion that my own boss is becoming less tolerant of people's crapola because of my presence. In spite of a serious medical handicap, I am almost never late (maybe once a year?) and I cash in leave every year. Although I am not a stellar performer, I usually make my numbers (and usually sweat bullets to do it, and my boss knows it). I think this is part of why some of the deadwood on my team has recently been cut. I think it has gotten harder for my boss to buy lame excuses and be sympathetic to reasons to fail to do your job. Yes, I require some minor accommodation for my handicap. No, this does not mean that I expect my boss to put up with me failing to do my job. That is not an "accommodation". That would be "charity", which I don't want, thanks.

There's some saying about a "good example being the best lecture"...or something like that. Whether my example subtly influenced my boss's decision or not, I'm pleased to no longer have to put up with some of these people, even though weeks later I am still cleaning up the messes left behind by one of them. But I wouldn't want to work somewhere with a ratting system. I think it would be a draconian environment and would sink to the lowest common denominator in the worst possible way.
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Because we really don't care about your bare opinion. It just raises the question: "Why do you think so?" and you should realize that and answer that question. If you have nothing to add to what has already been said on the subject, then don't say anything. Your comment is devoid of any value, with the possible exception of people that know you and value your opinion even without arguments. Which is questionable in itself. As far as I'm concerned, it deserves -4 to discourage such empty comments.
I tried to wake up to watch the impact live, but 4:20am was very early and the alarm got switch off very soon after it went off... Its a pretty zany idea though, i gotta hand it to NASA for a cool experiment.
Lawyer Loses Unemployment Payments Because of $1.30 in Daily Blog Income
France Telecom has 187,331 employees (wikipedia). It might be "a single company", but it's 9 times bigger than Google...

Even if you restrict it to France (where I think these suicides occured), that's still roughly 100,000 employees, so 5 times Google.

Of course it's sad and France Telecom should definitely improve the situation. Not a single employee should commit suicide because of work. But it's not staggering.

France suicide rate is somewhere around 17 or 18 in 100,000.
I run a company that has been creating site builder products for 6 years now (sitezoogle.com).

It is one of the toughest markets for a web app, in my opinion.

On the dev side, there are very high requirements for each market. Take Realtors. You'd need to interface with MLS -- problem is each MLS has different requirements, and there are dozens in the US and Canada. Some have XML feeds, some only let you use an iFrame, others let you only download listings via FTP (!). You'd also need an internal CRM to help agents manage visitors and market to them. Both of these functions take a lot of dev.

Then there is the competition. Take realtors again, and do a search in Google. There are hundreds of competitors, and therefore the adwords PPC is in the $3 range for the top listings.

We've succeeded (profitable since 2004, 10 employees) by focusing on underserved niches (Landscapers, Horse breeders) and working closely with them to understand their needs.

But, it is definitely NOT easy to go across dozens of market and have a compelling product and market it effectively.

We are looking for help, so if anyone is interested in this market, send me a msg!
It sounds like there might be a waiting period before voting is counted. It could be karma or time based, but honestly either it way it is probably a good idea to slow down the spammers.

Try commenting and participating for a couple weeks and I bet it will start working for you.
It generally means "apparently useless activity which, by allowing you to overcome intermediate difficulties, allows you to solve a larger problem." -- definition taken from Wiktionary (which claims the etymology comes from a Ren & Stimpy episode).

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yak_shaving

But in this case the blogger seems to be misusing it to describe needless wheel re-invention by corporate IT programmers who could either have used an open source solution or bought in the tool that the blog post advertises to solve the problem. I wouldn't use the term in such cases.

More accurate usage of the term would be finding yourself updating your entire system to support some obscure dependancy of the open source PDF library you decide to install, or spending time trying to get a software purchase authorized via your office bureaucracy.
I was under the impression that password managers are very techie-oriented ... I don't think OpenID is intended solely for techie sites.

I don't think the providers of OpenID intended for it to be techie-only, but my understanding of user research has shown that it's almost exclusively used by geeks.

I think OpenID has, at the conceptual level, a lot going for it. But in real-world execution, I can't stand it. I much prefer my own username/password protocols.
There is a huge difference. I'm not bothered one little bit about logged-in / opt-in users or those who chose to install a plug in. My concern is specifically with a visitor who did not register and have no clue of what's going on.
Yep. As I said, this is all pretty old and was done as a learning experience. Thanks though. :)
I hope some of that money is going for extra toilets.
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Where does that 20% stat come from?
Like Mary Kate and Ashley Olson. Tween bazillionaires.
Sorry to say, but after reading this thread, my gut feeling is 'run away as fast as possible'. I think others are trying to communicate the same more politely.

One important thing that you are missing: you would not want to startup with someone you don't know from before, and have complete, blind trust in. And you cannot 'hire' a cofounder. You hire workers, but a cofounder doesn't work for you, by definition.
What bothers me about posts like this is the unspoken underlying assumption that the younger you are when you start, the more "valuable" you are as an entrepreneur. Like, if you start at 12 then you're a better person than you are if you start at 13. There's a similar age obsession in writing and in fencing, both of which I was involved in during high school. I find that certain other fields, music especially, are a bit more level-headed.
Isn't that a bit like saying you're getting sick of wiki sites? Or phpbb?

They've come up with a new way to do Q&A sites which works. All power to them.

And there will be open source clones soon enough. Already was one posted here I seem to remember.
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I have a funny story surrounding the Eigenharp.

A few nights ago I was having last minute doubts about the original name we had picked for our startup. At a certain point, while brainstorming new names with a Dutch/Vietnamese friend, I came up with Eigenlabs. A quick search on Google led me to a site where weird instruments were being sold. "Argh, it's already taken, oh well". Fast forward two days, and I find the article I submitted here, on Reddit. "Hmmm, these instruments look familiar...". A quick Google search confirms that the company producing them is... Eigenlabs. What are the odds? :) baader_meinhof_count += 1.
Hi. LOL - i replied on your blog too and i think by twitter.

Troubled minds indeed.

Happy to work together to get this going - it is absolutely needed!
I think if you replace internet with interest, the sentence becomes much more legible. Perhaps an instance of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupertino_effect ?
thanks! Early days but hopefully useful :-)
I'm not sure I understand here... plurchase is similar. You have to visit our site to shop on amazon or related store.
Sometimes I don't get why people like to talk about what they did when they were young in our industry so much.

You see stuff like : I started writing Basic when I was 8 months old, and by the time I was 2, I was using interrupts to force a pipeline recache that would cause Pentium2 processors to execute 5 instructions in quasi parallel mode, so that I could do a realtime render of my backstreet boys collection...

Another common thing is: Person in question started selling lemonade when he was 7 and by the time he was 8, he had 15 extra lemonade stands staffed by his friends...

Almost without exception, when you read such bios of people, and those people write those bios by themselves, then they never amount to anything when they get older.

Why am I saying this? Because the techcrunch synopsis about each of those enterprenuer is almost directly lifted from each of their websites. Click on their 'About' pages.

Apart from Mark Bao of course, he's just a cool cat.
That's really horrible. It's not hyperbole to compare this to the Stasi, and what we're doing is adding more and more power to corporate management structures, precisely the last place that should be receiving more power to make judgment calls over people's lives.

Last week overstated ideas about intelligence when it's really power structures that helped the entrenched grow their fortunes, this week ratting systems. Hmmm, what's happening to Scott Adams? I guess he doesn't subscribe to ideas in The Lord Of The Flies.
For anything slightly more involved I really like Pure as a javascript template engine, http://beebole.com/pure/.

Especially when working with something like json data generated elsewhere.
So, the workplace has enough pitfalls without introducing all the ones from "social news?"

The problem with all such systems, is that they are all just approximations to something that exists in the real world. Almost by definition, they are imperfect. Reminds me of something someone said about RPG systems. There are the ones you can buy, which are all bad, and the ones you can make yourself, which are invariably worse.
http://www.eigenlabs.com/
It's important to keep in mind that there is a distinction between wealth and money. Wealth is a measure of how much stuff people have that they actually value for its own sake. Food, housing, clothing, shelter, and artwork, are all examples of wealth. Money, by way of contrast, is merely an accounting mechanism that humans have invented in order to facilitate trade. Money and wealth often go together, but they are completely different things. You can transform money into wealth, and vice versa (which is the whole point of having money), but you can have money without wealth and vice versa. And you can make (or earn) money without creating wealth, and vice versa. But historically, the most reliable and the most socially beneficial way of making money is to create wealth. So to help encourage that, here's a more or less comprehensive list of fundamental mechanisms of creating wealth.

Brilliant! This should be required reading for everyone even thinking about going into politics or finance. Even economists seem to miss this one on an uncomfortably regular basis.
Disclaimer: I've never actually run Dynomite, so I'm going on what I can find in docs.

In any case, a few of differences I found:

1. Configuration of N/R/W parameters. Dynomite appears to set these properties once, at startup time, for all values. Riak configures N per-bucket ("bucket" being like a 1-level directory structure), and R/W per-request. Specifying N/R/W so "late" means that applications can put different CAP requirements on different sets of data and tune those requirements at request time.

2. Dynomite's main external interface seems to be thrift-based, with also some RPC exposure. Riak's main external interface is JSON-based, over ReSTful HTTP.

3. Hinted handoff is a target for Dynomite's 1.0 milestone (according to http://wiki.github.com/cliffmoon/dynomite/roadmap). Riak already fully supports hinted handoff.
On the topic of France Telecom, 24 suicides in about 18 months is a shocking number being used by unions and activists to make their case.

It's shocking that they could be so dishonest by presenting a statistically normal suicide rate as high. The suicide rate in france is 26.1/100,000 for men and 9.4/100,000 for women. France Telecom has about 100,000 employees, so in 18 months we'd expect about 26 suicides (assuming it's 50% men, 50% women).

http://www.who.int/mental_health/prevention/suicide/suicider...

Further context: most of the workers at France Telecom can't be laid off and are simply being moved from one job to another as part of a reorg. This causes stress, because workers might have to learn something new! Sacre bleu!

A chart of working hours by nation (look who is 4'th from the bottom):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Yearly_working_time_2004.j...
This is exactly what I've been wondering, with all the stuff Yahoo is shutting down.
New login. There is a new login on your profile page.

That will allow you to associate an alternate openid. You can swap alternate and primary openid on the profile page and every new login overwrites your primary openid.
Whenever you come up with a system which is tied to advancement (even if just indirectly) you have to think what kind of person would most benefit from it, because given time and natural selection, that will be the only kind of person you have left. The kind of person I see most benefiting from an anonymous criticism system is one who makes believable shit up about his or her coworkers that is impossible to disprove. Because of the anonymity, no one would be able to challenge it. Because the other coworkers look bad, they fail to get promoted or actually get fired, leaving only backstabbers. Now, this system does have the benefit of promoting only believable, measured, devious backstabbing, which may in fact be of value in the corporate world, but good God would I not want to work at any place that promotes this sort of behavior, intentionally or otherwise.
Their stock is pretty solid still.
"Chile Wants Your Poor, Your Huddled Masses..."

at the same time you have to

"invest $500,000 over 5 years..."

This is NOT an immigration program. It is a foreign investment program. One modeled after the program that China used to lift hundreds of millions, and counting, out of poverty. So it is to be lauded. At the same time, all Chile will get out of the program is foreign investment. Without the fundamental human capital advantages that China has, it will not become a powerhouse. This is the point that many governments misinterpret. The goal of immigration is, in layman's terms, to IMPORT MORE resources. The goal of foreign investment is, in layman's terms, to provide easy access to EXISTING resources.

This is the reason that the global powers are betting on Brasil. It has the most lax immigration program in South America. It has an EXISTING base of companies for those immigrants to work in. And, the obvious, nothing attracts human capital like naked, bronze women dancing on beaches with drums.
voice chat would be great. as would be the ability to "take over" the mouse so that I can present items (using the house as a pointer) to my friend
If I was in their shoes and I got featured like this, I am not sure I could go without getting a big head. Which sucks because it is one thing to make f-u money and get a big head. It is another to be recognized in a way that millionaires are often recognized--except you don't have the millions yet.

My advice to them would be to IGNORE the crap out of this. And keep doing the great work! The ones that get too sucked up in remaining on this list for next year or hating themselves for not making it are moving away from what made them awesome to begin with.
The corporate tax in Chile is higher than in the US if you don't keep the money there. That could be a dealbreaker for some.
Are you kidding me?

Keep writing naked puts and then compound it by assessing your risk based on historical data.

This is a surefire way of loosing your shirt when the next Lehman level event comes around.

The risk in your strategy is that the stock market has very fat tails and unlikely events happen with more regularity than they should -- and the math that you're using to assess your risk discounts all these events by terming them unlikely.
I wish they'd have played a different song. While the instrument looks impressive, playing a generic sounding piece of rock means I can't help but wonder if three people couldn't have played the same piece with older instruments.
Let's put it this way: they started maybe a decade, maybe two decades, ahead of everybody else. They're able to make a LOT more mistakes without suffering for it than anybody else. Even entrepreneurs starting early into their 20s don't have as near-perfect a sandbox for their efforts.

Unhealthy obsession with youth? Maybe. But not unwarranted, I think. Either way, this has got to be plenty more educational for them than what they're getting at school.
Looking for a co-founder for a SaaS startup. 
If you feel this idea would make the world better and could see yourself as one of the founders please send me a email at hajrice@gmail.com

So the idea is that your company can register an account and have your own PRIVATE twitter on our site. So for instance, you run Tatango...for this example lets say that there are four team members. You register an account for tatango, and get a unique subdomain like: tatango.getteamspeak.com and you as an administrator can grant user accounts for tatango. So you basically have your own private twitter running for your company, Tatango.

You can upload files to posts and setup quick todos. For instance for a todo it'd look something like this: @todo for emilhajric: please fix navigation on #projectname.

In terms of pricing, I was thinking we'd offer two options. You have the free option(only comes with the standard twitter for your business) and you have the paid version/premium which includes the standard twitter for your business along with the @todo feature, adding files inside your updates, etc..

Best of luck,
Emil Hajric.
I'm always fascinated at the value some people place in " I am almost never late (maybe once a year?)".

Your true value is not in always being there on the clock at the same time every day. You list that one first, and the fact that you never take vacation.

I have to read the rest of your post while trying to separate that distraction. Because in the end, it is about productivity, not the time you don't use for vacation, nor the fact that you walk in the door at 9:00AM on the dot every day.

Misplaced values like these are being used to fire others? I hope not. :)
Really, is it so hard to roll your own?

I did, and it was trivial: http://repo.cat-v.org
I'd be hugely embarrassed to be seen playing one of those things. It's like some kids' movie-tied toy gone huge and gone wrong. Especially with all those flashing lights wizzing up and down the fretboard. Ridiculous.
Have you guys talked with a lawyer yet? You're building a time bomb, where you'll be ignored right up to the point you're making a bit of money, then sued by any number of other people. This is not a great business plan.

You really need to talk to a lawyer. Maybe they'll tell you this is hunky-dory, but I'd be surprised. Not talking to a lawyer isn't going to save you any hassle in the future.
I am not a huge fan of this story.

But I enjoy reading childhood stories of people I am trying to learn from. It puts into context where they are coming from.
Such as system would serve employers more than the employees, for sure.

I think management would use it as a tool to discern popularity of individuals--to decide who to fire such that the backlash would be minimized.

I've seen workplaces where the top-most, most productive employee was the least popular and most likely to be stabbed by such a system.
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See, this is the problem I have with blog posts like these. These guys are in the teens. Many of them got to this point by following a passion in programming. Now that they are in the limelight, some will start worrying more about their sentence structure and matching their shoes than continuing to get better at whatever got them here.

Of course matching shoes and getting the sentence structures right is very important in life--but not necessarily in your teen years.