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MindTouch (http://www.mindtouch.com/) competes directly with SharePoint and the base system is open source. Aaron R. Fulkerson from the company creating it was interviewed in FLOSS weekly recently (http://twit.tv/floss89) Sounded pretty cool, and certainly worth a look if you have any doubts about introducing yet another lock-in to Microsoft platform.
In cash terms, that isn't remotely close to true. The chances of making a fortune as the founder of a startup are vanishingly small, and as an employee, a tenth that. Work in an industry such as banking where compensation has a bonus element and you will do better than a hypothetical startup employee who participates in an IPO every year on that alone, and that's before you consider you'll get a good salary and work half as much.
How about they start with telling you that it's turned on? I don't see anything in the web interface that tells me that others can also see my live typing.
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Oops, I meant to reply, not upvote.

Sharepoint is only really utilised because it comes as part of Microsoft's enterprise package. More often than not it is recommended/purchased by the IT department solely, without any other input from management. Large companies can expect massive seat-based licensing costs in the millions, year long implementation timelines and poor uptake rates. I will probably get downvoted but I speak the truth. People should be fired for their choice.
Used to do urban car rallying and was writing a custom mapping app specifically for that (up-to-date street data was pretty important as the city I was in was fast growing and always under construction).

Not using for anything now, although this has sparked my interest again :)
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Absolutely, just what many smokers tell me and they are right. I just think we should at least know about the risks.
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They made such a thing, it's called "clippy" in MS office. Wasn't very popular...

"I see you're trying to create an implementation of half of common lisp."
Interesting technology but it this is not a black hole -- electromagnetic or not. When i saw the title I thought it would be something much cooler such as concentrating an incredibly strong electrical field at one point so that it sweeps electrically charged particles in that point and creates a singularity. That would have been cool and is the logical thing one thinks of when one mentions an "electromagnetic black hole."

This is just a cylinder that traps microwave radiation by progressively refracting light to its core. It is cool but badly misnamed.
More often than not it is recommended/purchased by the IT department solely, without any other input from management

Actually the opposite is true with most corporate software. That's why it's so bad.
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A few days ago I posted one potential issue with Heroku: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=859544

Does anyone know if this has changed recently?
That guy is a moron -- filling a mounted filesystem with large files of zeroes is not erasing it. To actually do so, dd from /dev/zero onto the full device.
i was going to say that there's already c++ or c#, but the language looks really cool. i guess the keyword there is "modern".
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And there's also Top Dog if you're looking for a quick bite to eat. It's right across the street (on Durant) from the Asian Ghetto. They sell really good gourmet sausages for about $2.75 per.
Crappy is certainly a preconceived notion, but 'what does it actually do?' is valid criticism/complaint. Read over these comments. It seems to be pretty hard to explain clearly.
> Wordpress - for a simple blog

Well, even for less simple blogs -- for example Techcrunch is built on Wordpress.
I'm going to make a prediction that the default will become "not live typing", and the feature will disappear altogether later.

(And yes, a thousand times yes, sensible defaults. But even more than that, as few preferences/options as possible. I would much prefer people make a design choice, than no design choice.)
Ah, simply saying "parallelize" put me on the wrong track. I didn't realize you wanted to limit the number running simultaneously. Cool you discovered that xargs can do it - I didn't know that.

I have, however, done this before. I have a "load_wait" command which waits for machine load to drop below a certain level before launching the command. A simple "sleep 1" between instances of that then lets me launch thousands of commands without killing the machine.

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sleep 1 ; load_wait 3 <command2> &
sleep 1 ; load_wait 3 <command3> &
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...

I then launch those via "system" from inside awk and I'm done. The commands tend to be in muscle memory.
I'm still not quite convinced what need they fulfill, other than making it easy to deploy small/free apps. Sorry, that's just my impression. Anyone think differently? Please do correct this view if you think it's wrong.
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While both represent walled gardens. One by search ranking the other by latency/bandwidth.

It is a lot easier to change/create a search provider since there is nothing that has locked you in as such. But remember you are there because you find their walled garden useful.

However you don't have a choice if your packets are going to traverse AT&T. Also on some level creating a new search engine is a less costly task that rolling out new internet infrastructure. If AT&T shaping was opt-in and they didn't unfairly discriminate against those who haven't opted in ;) but that means you have to trust them to be benevolent.

They can do good with shaping, just like google does good with ranking. However once you grant them this power, you better hope they don't use it in an anticompetitive way.
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I'd be interested if you have some examples of communication forms that geeks didn't start using first - email,sms,twitter, were all pretty geek lead...

Facebook wasn't. Or MySpace. I found out about FB from non-geek friends. I was shocked.
Is there a similar platform for Python?
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AppEngine is probably the closest.
Great news! I host a lot of my stuff on Heroku and have had a great experience so far. Deploying with a git push is pretty satisfying!
For me it looks like a compilable python (with more complex syntax, of course) but with all the libraries of C.

The garbage collector without gc_free() means less control and memory leaks in complex programs (my biggest issue with python). I guess one could use malloc() and free() if they really want to (since C headers can be imported).

The hello world example is confusing though.
Sure.

Wave is for solving the key problems with email in a corporate environment:

1) It's hard to track (will presumably offer an API or be trackable by widgets)

2) It's hard to use it to collaborate on a piece of text to be sent out to someone else or included in a document (which is what it's used for half the time...)

3) When adding new people, it's hard to ensure that they have a clear view of the beginning of the conversation - often they get a garbled, over-indented mess in reverse chronological order, that's hard to follow.

4) When adding new people, often they get dropped again if someone replies to all from the wrong email.

5) It's hard to keep multiple conversation branches going. If you're collaborating with 5 people (hardly extraordinary) on a 2-page document, and they each have 1 distinct comment, and each of these comments requires a brief exchange (back and forth 3 times, let's say) before it's sorted out, you'll end up with a fairly messy conversation once it's all flattened out.

6) It's hard to attach files (particularly large or numerous files). And when you add extra people to the conversation, they don't see those files anymore. If there were multiple files sent at different time, sending all of them to the new participant is a pain in the ass.

7) When discussing, say, a document, correcting even a small typo requires a full email instead of being able to just dive in and correct the typo.

There are no doubt more, but this is what I can come up with fresh out of bed.
It hasn't changed (yet?), but you can always put your NoSQL datastore on your own EC2 instances. Or you could use it with something like MongoHQ (http://mongohq.com).
Awesome! Keep rocking, this is the platform of the future for sure...
It's beautiful. I think I'm in love!

It's a wonderful framework giving me a graceful syntax and some nifty tools. I may just get involved!
Wow, simply great. It would be nice to open files in your computer and use them. I could not open any file by
:n filename command. Also record command, which is very useful is missing. I am not sure for what this can be used?
AFAIK there's nothing stopping you from using Amazon's SimpleDB, especially since Heroku is already running on EC2.

Also, given the "SQL Databases Don't Scale" by Adam I would be very surprised if they don't roll out a more "scalable" alternative to Postgres in the near future.
Which does most of the stuff done by SharePoint much better

Much better according to you. Not according to the hordes of non-geeks in large corporations, who don't even know that there are alternatives.

Compared to sharing a spreadsheet by email or via a shared drive with no locking, Sharepoint is pretty good!
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So you're saying nobody notices the context switches?
Sharepoint does a reasonable job at being a MS-centric document management system, providing team collaboration spaces and being a traditional intranet.

But for everything else that it claims to be is just a huge tease.

- It can be a CMS, but it's the worst, most inflexible, non-standard compliant one you can imagine.

- It can be a development platform for corporate applications. But unless you're doing something that is ultra-simple and very close to out-of-the-box, it's just not worth your time. Plus the whole development process is one big hack (need Windows server, SharePoint, IDE on the same machine, position every object manually, batch job here, keygen there, restart SP/IIS all over the place, etc)

- Business users are able to create small business apps and workflows - but they'll be a complete mess and everyone will become frustrated with the bugs, limitations and idiosyncrasies when using them.

- You can do workflows - but the out-of-the-box workflows suck, SPD workflows have way too many limitations and custom workflows are a big pain and alot of work.

- It is enterprise-y... but it has lots of non-enterprise "features". Deleting your workflow history after 3 months, updating everything single document with the latest datestamp when doing a service pack, broken import/export features.
I've been an SP user and was also involved in a few projects.

From a users perspective I see SP as no more than the "My Documents" folder moved to a browser. Sure, documents are now accessible to others, but SP does not solve the problem of explaining what the status of the document is. So you find someone else's doc, but you still may have to call or email to figure out if the doc was sent to customers, accepted, etc. As a document management platform, SP brings nothing new to the table.

Company functions like internal IT support, HR, etc. can easily setup simple workflows, and ticketing systems. In my opinion, this is the single best thing of SP and super valuable.

As a tech guy, I would never choose SP. First of all I find it too expensive, and second, the lock-in pitfalls of expensive upgrades and hours and hours of consulting to develop simple changes are just too risky (if it was my money).

So I agree with others in these comments, SP tries to do too much (and even more in the 2010 version), and the IE only thing just pisses me off.
(you can actually use other browsers, but I found that some of the config stuff can only be done in IE)
It still boils down to switching costs. If Google pulls shenanigans often enough, some users will notice, and they switch to Bing or some other search engine with very little effort. Google doesn't want to lose those users, so they have incentive to not be evil.

On the other hand, AT&T either has a physical monopoly or is part of a duopoly of broadband in many markets. If AT&T pulls shenanigans often enough, even if users do notice, they can't switch to some other provider easily. So AT&T can be evil, and people have to accept it, because there isn't much other choice.

If the capital costs of becoming a broadband provider were as low as being a search engine, regulation wouldn't be necessary. But since the landscape isn't competitive due to physical limitations, and AT&T has a history of being evil, regulation seems necessary.
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Being watched feels kinda creepy. But being able to find the stuff you want is fun.

To a certain extent, this is somewhere where GUIs out-perform command lines - the hierarchical menu system that shows you the functionality available in a way that's fairly easily searchable. Maybe you could implement some sort of tree-structured help on the CLI?
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I don't think it has yet.

It's really easy to connect to hosted NOSQL environments though, if that's your cup of tea. AFAIK there are some solutions for most of them: MongoHQ, Couch.io and another one for Redis I can't recall.

You could also do it yourself. Basically anything that is also on EC2 shouldn't affect performance too bad.
Basically you're saying the same as me...

We do have SP in our company, we also have lots of other stuff - we use JIRA for issue tracking for example. I also spent quite some time evaluating Confluence. And what I figured out was that getting to integrate whole of our infrastructure and different existing document repositories (they're all over the place technologically and physically) would be way easier and more flexible using Atlassian suite.

That's because we work on so many different platforms (.Net, Domino, Java, Oracle, MSSQL,...). And since SP is very typical of MS software (great integration with anything MS - and other stuff does not exist) - for our situation an principal/technology agnostic system is much much better in the long run.

But as far as non-geeks go in monolythic MS stack companies - ofcourse SP is AWESOME :)
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This is such a poorly written article. Is it translated?

I much preferred the BBC's description, even if it was a little "layman": http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8307977.stm

The one paragraph in their story about the "threat" to bluetooth was far more fair than all the other stories I've seen on HN about Wifi Alliance.
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It can be used for adding a vi mode to any web page editing scenario you might have a need for. If you want to edit local files from your browser, I've made a Firefox extension that does just that:

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It doesn't have a vi mode (yet) and lots of other things, but I'd be interested to see if people found it interesting and useful.
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Nice, what is missing is a way to have vim (or a decent approximation) in every text area, embedded. There are different solutions and extensions but nothing comparable to vim running in the text area box.

While I'm at it, another thing I miss so much is the ability to tell Firefox (or other browsers) that I write in two languages (Italian and English) so it could automagically switch spell correction dictionary auto sensing the language. This problem is common to at least half the people living in Europe.
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The PeepCode casts (or PDF, like the ThinkingSphinx one specifically) I watched myself were extremely useful in my opinion (and totally worth 9$, if you ask me).

I've exchanged a lot about screencasts with people this year (building the aggregator), and it really looks like there is a kind of split between people: those who think 9$ is totally worth it, and those who would never pay 9$ for it :)

Interesting psychological pricing question I guess.
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That's quite a significant itch that they're scratching then. Look at the figures - 36,000 deployed apps speak for themselves, and the quality of the platform suggests that the big spike is still to come.
Thanks, interesting explanation. Maybe another factor is the change in blood pressure, because while you exercise parts of your body that normally receive little blood, will receive a lot more, and blood carries antibodies that may kill viruses before they start to spread in the rest of the body.

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You resent the understated attempt at humour, or perhaps the deliberate Strunk and White non-compliance?

I have read several of Vs books, each of them sublime, along with Stephen Kings 'On Writing'.. and I think my comments were on topic.

ok, I'll pay 17c via paypal to the first two persons who upvote this post, thus obliterating the downmod.
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I'm trying to imagine the optical effect of looking at such a device. Maybe I'm misunderstanding the physics, but if it's anything like that picture it must be quite a fascinating distortion of the visual scene. Not only completely black at the center but also a very strange surrounding.
Depending on the audience, maybe. I've not looked at the code, but I know it has some very specific design assumptions and a number of weird corner cases baked in which might not make it a good general-purpose example.
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I don't know much more about the history of the proof than this, but in the following talk, Malcolm Gladwell describes the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem as the work of 13 smart guys in collaboration, rather than one lone genius.

http://www.newyorker.com/online/video/conference/2007/gladwe...

From what I know about the problem, his assertion that Ventris worked alone is not quite right, Alice Kober contributed significantly to the decipherment as well.
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Yet another interesting looking new language -- but not on the JVM for once.

The site doesn't explain how C and C++ libraries can be used, especially with respect to GC. There doesn't seem to be a destructor/finalizer to wire up to a 'legacy' free(), so wrapper classes might be tricky.
Coming from the other side of the pond (I'm a Brit) and growing up where my folks grew their own vegetables, I've really been turned off by a lot of the stuff churned out by corporations and labelled 'food'.

In regard to taste, it's simply not true that all year round food tastes the same as something that is in season.

Im not talking about organics here. Heck I grew my own tomatoes in my back yard and they were 95% better than the stuff in supermarkets.

Buy some strawberries from a major supermarket, cut them open. They are not not supposed to be white inside. That's because of the manufacturing warehouse process. They are supposed to be super sweet. Usually they are not.

Buy some tomatoes. Same deal. Cut it open and examine the cell structure.. Half the time it either whitish and tasteless or the cell structure looks collapsed and will rot real-soon-now. Buy some on-the-vine fancy tomatoes (from your local farmers market).. notice how sweet they taste and how red they look once you slice them.. thats because they've been allowed to ripe naturally.

The other thing I find scary is that if I buy apples from the supermarket it takes forever for them to rot. That simply is not right.

Personally I prefer to eat stuff that's in season, so my menu changes as the year progresses.

I try real hard not to buy stuff from major supermarkets. I find it's usually cheaper to buy stuff from your local farmers market (go late in the day when they are trying to get rid of everything) or local grocer store which gets supplied from farmers.

Oh I'm not some fancy shmancy foodie hippie. I just want decent food for a reasonable price.
This looks a lot less syntactically confusing than D. Specifically, by describing it as "here's how to shorten the C you already want to write".