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I'm not a big fan of the tone, either, however, jacquesm is spot-on in his assessment.

For one thing, my understanding of Rackspace's business practices -- and I've only dealt with them peripherally, so I might be a bit wrong here -- is that they "manage" things like their network, and the actual server hardware, and stuff like that. So, if you want a CPU upgrade, sure, they'll do that. If you need your server rebooted, they'll do that too. But, they don't have anyone sitting there monitoring your system's performance metrics and doing your sysadmin duties for you.

The way I read it, Rackspace did do their job: they upgraded the hardware. It was up to the server admin -- not Rackspace -- to check that the software was then configured correctly.

And finally, I don't generally agree with statements of the form, "If you don't know X, you shouldn't be doing Y", but ... looking at dmesg and top are both really, really, really standard sysadmin operations. Entry level stuff, really. Sysadmin work doesn't just mean messing around with Apache's configuration; there are many more nuances, and it's likely that their system is vulnerable to problems that they don't even know about.
Also, for real-time search, some users report small to medium size explosions after each query.
Nevermind, its still slow as molasses. However... it no longer locks up my mac. This is probably something to be celebrated. I don't mind if windows is slow (for IE7 testing), but don't mess with my mac speed.
It would be kind of useful for seeing status updates of your friends in real time.
Fast isn't everything, it also needs to be correct/true. Unfortunately too many journalists/news organizations care too much about fast and too little about correct. Like that flying kid the other week.
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There's nothing that says the blogger will ever give up his domain. My suggestion is to start thinking of new names. You might even end up with a better name than you have now.
The tone is probably in large part because the OP does not take any responsibility for his own part in this and instead is pointing his finger at a third party that may have been partially at fault. But that is by no means sure.

This is typical with what I think is a real problem in society, the 'externalization of blame'.

Inability to see your own responsibility is a serious issue, and it is really pervasive. If I were in the OPs position I would be headbutting a piece of concrete for 20 minutes to make sure I never ever make a mistake like that again, and I would thank rackspace for finally finding the fault that I could have noticed in 5 minutes two years ago.

That's why you have post-delivery checklists, burn in tools and inventory management, staples of everybody that has # on machines that do customer work.

I'll try to keep my 'tone' better under control, apologies for that.

At least it wasn't in Dutch ;)
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you don't always get a NAT IP -- it seems to be a locality thing, depending on how and where they are bridging from the telephone network to the internet -- I've always seen a public IP in San Jose.
"The assumption here is that peace between nations can somehow be resolved by just communication among private citizens and individual friendships".

No, the assumption here is that facilitating communication will help resolve a conflict. A commendable initiative by Facebook.
Apropos upsides, always do an fdisk /dev/sdX for the drives that are not installed in your machine, sometimes you get more than you paid for.

This happened to me several times at EV1, same with memory and CPU.

It really pays off to check if you can boot a machine with an SMP kernel and another CPU shows up too (don't bother doing that on a celeron box though).
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I used to think that until several months ago when I was on campus and got a call from a friend saying a gunman was roaming about, armed and ready to unload. The first thing I did was search for #uci (my uni) on Twitter and got hundreds of tweets from students around campus who were being herded to back rooms and put in lock down. Honestly, Twitter was the only place I could go to find that sort of news. The media picked up on the story about 30 minutes into it, so I thank Twitter for giving me the heads up to get the hell out of there, else I could have waited around a bit longer to see what was really happening, putting myself in a lot of risk. I mean, I probably would've beaten the gunman to death if he ever approached me, so Twitter really just spared me the discomfort of a week's worth of sore fists.
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"I said he should not be managing the servers their customers stuff runs on."

And what if it's only him? No go then huh?

You've been saying a lot of this kind of thing lately. That guy before with the App Store payment problem? You came down on him like a ton of bricks. And now this. Just because people haven't dotted every i and crossed every t. It's not exactly the hacker mentality is it?
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I have my doubts about Google Wave. If Twitter is still complicated for some people to understand (conceptually speaking) I feel not too many will find great value in the Real-time communication feature of Wave.

I don't think search is the killer app for real-time. Real-time communication is already popular with sites like Twitter and Facebook where the value is to see what your friends are doing in real-time. The use-cases for search are not so obvious right now. And you get this from a guy building a RT conversational search-engine.
i use vim and emacs both every day for different purposes. it's my opinion that vim is a better text-editor, but emacs is clearly the more powerful of the two.

in the bitter end for me it comes down to whether or not i can swallow the indentation that emacs wants to shove down my throat for that particular language. for lisp, yes, for javascript, no thanks.
I don't see why this is stupid advice, I run dozens of applications off my USB flash drive. My USB flash drive happens to be an Intel SSD drive so the failure rate is probably lower, but it's nice to have a big portable drive that contains my entire dev environment so I don't need to do anything fancy (like doing a git repo) for having a perfectly portable environment. Flash is getting more reliable these days so I don't think it's a bad thing running applications off of flash disks.
Then he could hire a part-time sysadmin, there are plenty of those looking for work. I figure for $200 / month he can switch to a similar powered dedicated server with a competitor and pay a guy for 4 hours worth of real hands on sysadmin time every month. That way he pays roughly the same and comes out ahead in every way.

Managing UNIX systems that have to perform well under load takes quite a bit of knowledge. Sure, everybody can install 'ubuntu', 'redhat', 'gentoo' or whatever flavor is popular this week. But that does not make you a system administrator. I wouldn't trust myself with my customers machines either, simply because to stay up-to-date on all the holes in all the packages that you may have installed and keeping them patched is real work.

I don't think I came down on the app-store guy 'like a ton of bricks', in fact I gave what I thought was pretty sensible advice and offered (after Sam Odio did) to help him out.

But it's essentially the same problem as what is happening here, blame company X because of something that you caused yourself.

The app store guy:

- quit job before having money in the bank
- set up overly complicated corporate structure to avoid non-existent liability

This guy:

- take responsibility for a part of the operation that he's not qualified to do
- keep on messing for two years without calling in outside help (sure, it will cost)

And both of them point the finger at another party.

So maybe that's why it seems to you that this is a 'lot of this kind of thing'.

As for whether or not it is the hacker mentality is not my thing, I call it as I see it.

I've had people here rip me to bits for making a stupid remark (and rightly so), if you can dish it 'Rackspace is at fault because they don't know how to upgrade a cpu' or 'Apple is at fault because they don't pay me' then you should be able to take it.
Being Greek, what I despise is being framed as one half of the world's 'mortal enemy pairs' that facebook is helping fix. For one thing, we haven't fought a direct war with Turkey for nearly 90 years. Having cultural animosity between two nations is one thing, being paraded as an example of 'warring tribes' on a worldwide forum is quite another. I fear this initiative crystalises stereotypes rather than helping break them down.
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The main problem is, reddit isn't helping its users discover those needles in the haystack. It's down to serndipity or sheer bloodymindedness clicking next next next while looking through the list of subreddits.
Maybe leaving users to create other sites mapping out reddit is a good idea, but reddit could do a lot more to aid discovery.
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Since it's basically personal I'll take it to e-mail if that's OK with you.
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You can also go the mint.com route and trade a little equity for access to the domain
And it's that former situation where I've seen the performance issues mentioned.
I looked in to neo4j the other day, but was put off by the combination of the AGPL license (which, as I understand it, makes it impossible to use for any commercial purpose since you are required to GPL any software that so much as talks to the database) and a lack of any indication of how much a commercial license would cost on the web site. I know this is how "enterprise" stuff works, but personally I have a strong aversion to evaluating software when I have no idea how much it would cost should I chose to use it - that's one of the reasons I like open source.
It allows hipsters to know what is "so hot right now".

For people who can't really think for themselves, they can just search and see what everyone else thinks.
Do people actually think you are unemployed, or do they just think that what you are doing cannot possibly support you full-time/comfortably?

I experience the second reaction fairly commonly. People ask me what my job is, I explain it to them, and then they inevitably follow-up with "Is that profitable?" or "You work on that full-time?" -- basically, some variant of "that sounds like a nice hobby, kid, but what do you really do?"

I think it stems partly from insecurity, and partly from lack of understanding.

The insecurity part comes from the fact that most people don't want to actually believe that you can be successful by working for yourself. Many people dream about working for themselves or starting their own company, but few are willing to take the actual risk. When they see other people fail, it confirms that their decision to take the "safe" path was the correct one, and makes them feel better about themselves. This may seem really cynical, but I've experienced the reaction enough to believe it. Felix Dennis, founder of Maxim magazine and a publishing empire, also talks about this behavior a lot in his book "How To Get Rich" (tacky title, great book).

You mention that you're not a materialist. In that case, does it really matter if other people don't take you seriously, or fail to give you the respect you might deserve? Presumably, your friends should understand enough about your situation and business not to make such job offers. And if it's someone that you have to impress by handing out a fancy business card or driving a fancy car, and if they won't take you seriously without one, is that someone you want to be associating with anyway?
If you have a limited business - can you tie your personal account to the business?

If you it's not a registered limited businesss - let the bank know you want to set up as a sole trader and use the business name you gave to apple.

Can you re-register on apple as a developer with correct details and apps then chase up your old payments in the background?
I was under the impression it showed your gateway location as well. I started looking into it at one point and at least a simple whois lookup on the IP didn't reveal much information.

Granted, it's easy enough to lookup wifi AP's, but one has to wonder how well this works. ... And if they've had a security evaluation done. ;)
Is it? Most education money comes from state and local governments [ http://www.nsea.org/CORE/SchoolFunding.htm http://www.mnbusiness.com/mng/front.html ] This article is discussing federal standards of which it claims determines 60% of a school's federal funding which is less than 5% of a school's total funding. Not only that but in the schools I went to as a kid they always took the "gift" kids out of regular class a couple times each week to challenge them above and beyond.

The crux of this article is the following paragraph,

"This fact is demonstrated by research recently released by the Fordham Foundation. Tracking students over seven years in fourth-grade reading and eighth-grade math, the study revealed that low-achieving students (those in the bottom 10 percent) were progressing in reading at five times the rate of high-achieving students (those in the top 10 percent), and at three times the rate in math."

I see two problems here. One, there is nothing to compare this to other periods of history so this disparity could have been happening prior to the NCLB act and two it stands to reason that when you are particularly talented at something already improvements will come in smaller increments where as when your are at the low end large leaps of improvement are relatively easy to achieve. With sports like running this is certainly true and it strikes me as a paradigm that would also hold true for academic achievement.

NCLB may well be of suspect value but I don't think this article presents a convincing argument.
Hm... anybody can think of a reason why the adding cross country connections seems correlated for various pairs of countries.

For example the local max on Sep 19, or the local min at Aug 21 seem to hold for most pairs of countries.
Accuracy is also nice. Unfortunately, there's no barrier for entry to tweet, and people can be easily persuaded to retweet a story even if it's false.

Unless this is solved, we'll just see spam/false news stories all over twitter, and the service will become useless.

Also I don't think it's the fastest source of news. In the event of 'sudden shock' news stories, I've usually heard via IM/IRC. The fastest source of news is word of mouth, phone, webchat/IM, etc.

The other problem is that once you've heard MJ is dead, would you really want to see 100 bajillion tweets expressing shock at said news. It's very noisy.
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The term 'genre' seems a more fitting for SEO than the word 'industry'. There are a number of people who have become very successful with it.

If anything I think these numbers indicate that the model of piggy backing off an established service can be profitable (rather than just attributing value to SEO).

I won't outright say the entire thing is a fraud...hell even Isaac Newton was an alchemist. He was just remembered for things other than trying to turn lead to gold.
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My opinion is that SEO doesn't add that much to the value of a website when the website is designed with good standards. Ex: robots.txt, sitemap.xml, meta tags, no frames, etc.

The fact is however, most companies wouldn't know if there website is build according to these standards. This makes it that SEO people can easily sell there product because which company wouldn't want to be higher on Google? I give you money, you make me first on Google, I get more money. That's the simple and sellable equation SEO companies give.

(It also relates to the common problem in web development. Most of the buyers don't know what quality they are getting because they will never look at the source code. They only see a pretty website.)
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I've never been convinced that opages like this really have much effect.

Also it's worth pointing out that the graphs are immaterial; the people with real animosity wont be making those connections - and Facebook don't seem to be doing anything to encourage them......
I don't know much about Tim Bray, and I don't usually read its articles. But this argument is OK.

Having a smart compiler is one thing ... but a tail-call is not a simple optimization that speeds up your software. And personally I haven't seen a "sufficiently smart compiler" that does a reasonable job ... Haskell's GHC does a pretty good job, but without having internal knowledge the results are often horrible.

When you modify your function and accidentally move the call such that it's no longer in a tail position (and this one does happen) that function may not run anymore.

Engineers relying on tail-calls end up looking at the generated bytecode/assembler to ensure that it's really a tail-call, otherwise the software crashes.

That's why a tail-call should be explicit. Because you're relying on it for the computation to complete. It's not for speed, it's for correctness, and with implicit tail-calls you are effectively trading one kind of accidental complexity for another.
I'm trying to see how a graph database would be significantly faster than a key-value database. The only thing that comes to mind is that with graph databases a node's edges contain direct pointers or offsets to the other nodes, instead of containing the "public" string key of every other node, which has to be looked up via the B-tree index. This conclusion is supported by http://blog.directededge.com/2009/02/27/on-building-a-stupid...

So if key-value stores gave us access to their internal record IDs or offsets, both to read and search by, we would see a considerable improvement. The trade off would be sticking to an append-only data structure without compaction, or doing some extra work to update the offsets on every compaction.
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Companies value SEO because if they get higher ranks on search engines they'll make more money. So it's natural for a company to invest in a service that it'll grow their revenues.
What you (and some other people) are really saying is that you don't want real-time search to be the default. I'm not sure it should be or not, but I'd agree that we need to have a way to disable it lest we get too much noise.
I wonder how much of it is from the long tail. I know small non-web savvy businesses that happily pay $1-2k a month to outsource their SEO, as business from yellow pages continues to decline.
It's faster for me. Did you know that it runs on 64bit now? Maybe you need to reinstall some of your applications.
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He's saying 'generally higher quality', not average. Generally might mean all sorts of things, for example 'if the most used/most popular/most visible applications are of higher quality'
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I am pretty sure that the Nigerian scammers and multilevel marketing fraudsters made more money.

SEO is not fraud per se, but it smells like one. SEO works for sure and it may take your website from 100 page to the first page, but it feels like they are gaming the system, not adding value.
> Except that net neutrality is how it is now.

I understand that - but I imagine the internet will continue to change dramatically over the next 3, 5, 10, 20 years.

> Nobody's talking about imposing new rules or bureaucracy.

It runs the risk of handcuffing the future, especially if there's new and different protocols used to access the internet in different ways in the future. We have a lot of silly and antiquated laws on the books in the USA. Net neutrality sounds like a good thing, but it runs the risk of everyone saying, "Idiot 2009 people passing stupid laws so that XYZ Cool New Technology is illegal... what were they thinking...?"
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The one about "real video games" is extremely interesting (and enticing). However, most of the game ideas I have now are set in AUs or require supernatural abilities. I'm going to think about a good game idea for this kind of gameplay.

Perhaps something like Augmented Reality games using the video feed from your opponent??? Imagine your character having to parkour through your opponents living room...
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Well, Google's own Postini does spam-filtering.

I could imagine a setup where you have people send mail to an alias on your domain, route it into Postini, and then into Google Groups. The big problem would be getting users _not_ to send directly to Google Groups. And I'm not sure you'd even be able to tell them (direct vs. filtered) apart in Google Groups...
Can someone outline for me the pros/cons of a mailing list vs. a forum?

Except for the registering-over-and-over-again issue, it seems like forums would be preferable generally... (Especially given that most will send you emails with new posts if you ask it to.)
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There are really two separate issues with SEO:

1. The little legitimate stuff they do that would increase pagerank (better website design, alt text, metadata, etc.) is incredibly overpriced for the actual value, especially compared against SEO claims. But companies that don't shell out for a website designer that can do this in the first place deserve to be ripped off.

2. The even shadier SEOs will use botnet linkspam and the like. This is actively destroying the web and companies that do this do not deserve to exist period.
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