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I'm sorry but this kind of rhetoric ("they're so good you never even see them..") smacks more of "rock star" mythology than realism.

The best programmers, say Ward Cunningham (to name one more name than you or Joel do), are methodology gurus. The best methodologies admit that all programmers make mistakes and are limited. Perhaps we could learn something...
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Always appropriate, Vannever Bush's prescient "As we may think"

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/194507/bush
While we're on that subject though, thanks for Liquid and ActiveMerchant. You guys have no idea how awesome you are. (Okay maybe you do) - another fellow rails dev.
I would love to have one, if you have a spare one left.

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I guess it would be AJWS then. They're going to have to come up with a better acronym than "Adj-wuss" before this thing takes off.
It certainly varies by processor, CVV is important for card not present transactions.

I think the tone the author of the article took, and the author's understanding of the technology mislead him/her to make it seem that way.
Starring G Maone as Aristotle. This would put Google in the role of Plato then?
Is he saying that these studies are encouraging traders to take steroids? That would be a way to fuel "testosterone-based behavior" and it would get really dangerous quickly.

Of course, I can see no mention of that in the article, just enticing suggestions...
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There are a lot of similar players in the field: http://pulseapp.com/ and http://outright.com/ as well. At the end of the day, they can all claim to be mint for small businesses, but the winner will be one that actually captures that particular magic that mint had.
It's doubly true when I'm positive it's not just my connection being slow. 20 megabits down should be plenty for youtube.
I think this poll has two options.

1. Yes

2. Comedy option that people only vote on out of sarcasm/irony

Everyone borrows. But there is some fine line where borrowing becomes plagiarism. Not everyone plagiarizes.
We need to use this to pressure giant marketers so they will pressure ISPs to improve net performance.
You can hardly compare a EULA to a set of ~10 radio buttons.
Have you ever "borrowed" other people's natural/common language sentences? =)
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I did select "old settings" for everything. And found that a photo album which had been private under my old settings was now public.
Yes please! zephyrfalcon at gmail.com...

Thanks! ^_^
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I liken the experience of movoing to GitHub very much to that of Facebook back in the day. Prior to Facebook, I would have never thought of joining a social network, I never "got" friendster or myspace or whatever. Then a lot of stuff came together at the right time: I entered college and Facebook was college only back then, making it much more obvious what it did for me, it wasn't the ugliest thing in the universe like all the other sites, it was very simple and elegant, etc.

Similarly, other source sites were always more of an annoyance than a tool. They were this thing that I had to navigate and fight against just to get to code: I much preferred hitting a directory listing to ending up on sourceforge. Then, again a lot of pieces came together: git came along, where social code actually maked sense and github took advantage of this showing me immediately the benefits of putting my code there, the site is beautiful and shows me the code on the first page, etc.
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It wouldn't be ridiculous if the programmer is working full time with constant work coming in while the agent is out pounding the pavement. There's no reason the two tasks of "finding work" and "doing work" need to be done serially.

And what you've just described is what consulting firms do. The sales people are out pounding the pavement hitting up prospective customers to bring in work for the programmers (or whatever positions the sales people have claimed they have bodies for). This obviously isn't an ideal situation, for the customer or the programmer, but it seems to be reasonably successful, at least with large consulting firms. It could work better with a customer centric salesman and a small team of developers -- I'm sure there's small 4 or 5 people firms that work like this, with a "sales agent" in house.
In addition, the NAT issues discussed elsewhere in this thread would also be a much bigger deal with P2P.
Word...though I think you'd be pleased to know that Kohana is one of the better engineered PHP code bases out there.
Related discussion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=988631
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Did you really make a mistake? This is really not that big of a deal. The graphics are original, the CSS is original, the copy... it's not even in the same industry. Yeah the general feel is similar but who cares.

Besides, the Shopify website doesn't have an exactly stunningly original design. I could accuse Shopify of ripping off Envato's old website (http://www.myinkblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/envato.p...) but that would just be pointless.

Most of us will jack a copy of Hannah Montana's latest album without a second thought then get our panties in a wad when someone vaguely emulates a design.
I had a suspition that there wouldn't be a huge benefit. HTTP has pipelining for a reason.
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Joel isn't outright dishonest, but when he presents his views he usually does it with the intent of improving his business, or rationalization for his business decisions - so there's a strong slant to his talks. You can see this in a lot of places -
Everything from his talk about 'great work environment' - "and that's why every programmer at Fog Creek has two monitors and their own office!" to his suggestions of how to hire the best programmers concluding with "That's why you should use StackOverflow Careers". When he's not outright pitching his company or products, he's rationalizing decisions. Clearly, Ruby on Rails was too immature for FogBugz - that's why his team developed a custom programming language to power BUG TRACKING software.
I think it'd be neat if I could replace all the FLV players with a good one like the Youtube one or the Hulu one.

They often suck in that:

1) They're shitty at predicting the optimum buffer size

2) They do not continue buffering when paused, or do not indicate whether they are buffering.

3) The behavior for the connection failing in the middle of a pre-roll ad is different for the connection failing in the actual content, sometimes leaving it stuck

4) They do not always allow random access in the video, and when they do, sometimes they have to reload a portion of the video that you've already seen.

5) On some of my Macs, fullscreen viewing mode is vastly slower and more CPU intensive than just using the zoom feature in Universal Access.
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+1 for the 2408WFP. Excellent S-PVA display, except that it's a bitch to calibrate accurately, so beware if you need calibrated color.

The Dell U2410, which replaced the 2408WFP, has an IPS panel and can be found on sale from time to time for $400-500.
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I agree that great programmers tend to be focused on programming, to the exclusion of most other productive intellectual activities.

It's ironic - I feel exactly the opposite of the above poster. I just find it too easy to slip back into programming, instead of blogging about my work or spending the time to open-source any of my projects. I wish I was blogging more (or at all, for that matter).
I bought my 2408WFP specifically because it can be rotated, but I never actually ended up using it in portrait mode. I figured a portrait display would be better for viewing code, but in practice I couldn't get used to such a tall display; it was too much strain on my neck.
This reminds me of a time I interviewed a well-known blogger for a programming position - and his resume was filled with tons of mentions to citations his blog had received - and very little work experience. The interview, as you might expect, was awful.
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I thought of Australia, but it seemed not worth mentioning, mate. Even with Australia, the UK is just 1.3% of the world's population. That's hardly representative.

P.S. Actually, I wasn't too sure about Aussie speech patterns besides the usual stereotypes. Either way, with its 22e6 population, it doesn't sway the argument.
no, thank you!
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Sorry, guys, but streaming your tv to your phone over a cellular network all month costs way more than 30 dollars and ATT would be retarded not to try to rein you in. Anyone who gets this enraged and self reightous over something so obvious really comes off as pompous and petty.
Does V8 compile to a bytecode similar to Java?

AFAIK, not any remotely standardized bytecode, no. Of course, there are some data structures in between the strings of characters and the native code, but I don't think there's any talk of guaranteeing anything that would warrant calling them "byte code".

Aside: Lars Bak is the lead developer on V8, and was the lead on HotSpot - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars_Bak_(computer_programmer)
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It was going to open 9 popups for something kind of cool, like the rest of the site.
How about a device that actually directly saves you power?

Well that's what my friend's startup focuses on currently piloted in South Africa. The startup built a device that reliably saves power. You don't need to pay any fee up front for the device, you "pay as you go" on amount of saving made on monthly basis. No catch. Average savings currently are around 10-15%, engineering team is pushing the numbers up as we speak. Business has gotten necessary funding and even the primary energy supplier has come on board to put an initiative together that would implement the solution to all street lights in the country in the near future. South Africa is currently going through energy crisis due to huge demand and lack of supply.

PS. My wife is one of the co-founders. :)
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Hah, thanks Ziad!
Well, this is because (at least as far as I've observed), the probability of having many many buffers is far greater for each time a buffer has already happened. Accordingly those who value their time will go elsewhere
Amen to that. We all have our own unique strengths and weaknesses. More choice for the consumer. Looks like there is a huge market to save power + money + the environment all in one.
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Someone is using GTD :)

As I remember it, GTD does suggest having multiple to do lists based on where you would do each type of task. I think having your emails to do list in your email makes sense. If responding to the email requires you to do a lot away from the computer, than it makes sense to put it on your other to do list.

Also, I'm not sure I'd like to have email subjects, etc... on my to do list. I don't usually keep my list that granular since a lot of the tasks I need to do are pretty amorphous until I actually start on them and figure things out. Maybe its not the best way to do it though....
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I have an ancientish 2405WFP. 24" monitors are too tall when rotated, but 21" ones aren't.
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This seems to be comparing data URIs to an essentially un-optimized page. It would be more valid, I think, to compare the load time for different levels of optimizations which are more browser-compatible: e.g. CSS sprites, using different image domains, etc.

That said, I understand that any browser/HTTP performance testing is kind of a pain, so thanks for this result.
I'm running the developer version of chrome and none of the demos work?
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There is no methodology here as to whether the test was local (~0 latency) or simulated-real (50-200ms roundtrip latency). The latter amendment might change the picture substantially.
I wouldn't let the negative comments here get to you; in threads like these people have a tendency to seize on one negative thing while ignoring everything else. Site looks good btw, I think you are onto something.

See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=989120 : do as I say, not as I do, etc.
Likewise, I have plenty of bandwidth to watch Hulu - which worked fantastically when I had Verizon FiOS, but buffers with regularity on Comcast. The same Comcast who'll respond magically to any random complaint I have on Twitter, except when Hulu's involved.
That long of a reply from a mobile? I couldn't find the time to write that out unless I was sitting on the train/bus. Kudos.
all of human cultural development (it seems to me) depends on borrowing what came before and adding your own differences to it. i even think it's possibly a generalizable pattern echoed in natural phenomena like language change and biological evolution. why should code be any different?
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Congrats Damien.

For those keeping score at home, this may make Damien the most successful entrepreneur to be rejected from Y Combinator at the interview stage. http://damienkatz.net/2006/11/how_not_to_pitc.html
That's some impressive piece of software. I wonder if we are perceiving an acceleration on the rate of improvement for open source OSs. What other OSs have comparable technology?

And, more interesting, is it conceivable that FLOSS could be approaching a singularity?
Alright, thanks a lot, I'll implement those in the update!
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I don't condone copying either but - in all honesty if you search the web I'm pretty sure you'll find at least 10 sites with similar layout.

The design on shopify is not exactly ground braking.
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Much like vaccination, this only works because many other people are covered by insurance. What the hospital doesn't charge you (and thousands of other people without insurance), they make up for by raising rates across the board. Just because you negotiated the rate downward doesn't mean the procedure's cost went down for the hospital.
It seems that you're coming at this from a "borrowing is bad" perspective.

Is it bad if I use code from a GPL'd project in my own GPL'd project? I used some code (about 100 lines) from Inkscape in something I wrote recently that needed to render SVG images into another format.

So, yes, I used someone else's work. They said that I could, and I credited them. (They actually used the algorithm from the SVG standard, but didn't cite it. Is that bad? If so, does the badness in that case transfer to me?)
I assume this means he has left IBM. It feels like only yesterday that I was chatting with him on Sametime.
That's like a race-driver saying that ABS brakes are inefficient because he can brake better than the computer (true, but 90% of the rest of the population can't).

Or an amateur-chef scoffing at someone going to a steakhouse to get a good steak, because he knows how to make them good at home, much cheaper.

Or, say, a geek saying that graphical UIs are bad because he can work much faster on the command line and in vi.

I have two electrical heating devices, but both have a thermostat. I can read the label and do the math and tell you exactly what they cost to have running. But I can't tell you how often the thermostat turns them on and off, and I'm not going to spend a day with a stopwatch, looking at the light going on and off. I can't tell how the temperature outside might affect my heating usage. I can't tell how two persons showering affects the floor-heating in the bathroom, over one or none.

A logger like the one Wattvision offers could offer some input to that.
EDIT: never mind, missed your other comment below.
The announcement doesn't state what DRBD is. It turns out that it is effectively RAID-1 running over the network. It looks fairly impressive and will make setting up mirrored servers easy as cake.

Personally though I'd like to see networked RAID-0 support in the kernel. It'd be neat just throwing a bunch of machines on a network and have them all act like a giant disk.
I suspect that the vast majority of YouTube buffering failures are caused by Flash. Oftentimes if you fast-forward (drag the slider) past the buffering point, the movie will continue playing fine. That shouldn't even be possible if the problem was that the movie hadn't downloaded.
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I would buy this except $200 seems a bit steep.
> Personally though I'd like to see networked RAID-0 support in the kernel

No, I don't think you would. File systems won't play well with arbitrarily large drives.

You probably want a distributed file system, something like AFS, and it's already in there. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_File_System
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Well then fuck you dickhead.
You have to add --enable-webgl -no-sandbox to your chrome.exe shortcut.
You can effectively do that now with NBD and md.
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Most people "borrow" but hopefully have enough decency to change it enough to make it their own, or at least give credit where credit is due as long as the "borrowing" was allowed by the original property owner.
"The Thick of It." Primetime TV here, a massive ZfCC coronary if it ran in the States.

They tried a pilot for a localised version once. Never gonna work.
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I've borrowed and changed text around terms and conditions from a major business directory when I was creating one myself.
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I would wager that just about EVERYTHING in literature, tech & art has been created by "Standing on the shoulders of giants"

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Yes but the $30M Google stock would be worth over a billion right now if my quick (shitty) calculations aren't off, at least it should be that much once Google's stock gets around $700 again (can anyone verify this?)

And well there was $50M capital put in already so $100M is really like the least they could've gotten without the buy out being considered a complete failure. Then again I had no idea Friendster was worth anything really since I assumed it was dead.
If Google has multiple copies of the entire web in RAM (as has been reported in many places), Twitter should definitely be able to hold 140 character tweets in RAM.
Gee, some people are down-voting through their bad day.
Assuming a good portion of the streams analyzed were from CDNs, this is the second time recently I've seen Limelight get a great rating from a significant study (I can't find the other one offhand).
Plus, never fix what aint broken.
Let me summarise this: Mr. Scolbe leaves his home in the Bay Area and goes to France. He then discovers that the French are very different than the Bay Area people he interacts with and gets very deeply insulted.
Last time I measured, on a largely firefox userbase, adBlock was used by about 6%. Not enough really to bother about.

I'd expect the number who use NoScript to be 1-2% if that.

Note this is out of a mainly firefox userbase. For the general web those %'s would be far lower.
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Fuck. I had no idea I was so uncool until I read this rant.

Apparently being an entrepreneur means reading the marketing soundbytes of over 1000 twitter feeds. I guess the media likes twitter because they can just write headlines and omit the articles.
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"I'd like to see networked RAID-0 support in the kernel"

Isn't that what iSCSI is for?
This annoying post could and should be retitled "list of hoops I personally demand a company to jump through or I throw a tantrum".

I mean seriously. Have you ever decided against trying out a new web site because the CEO of the company behind it isn't on Twitter? Scoble is living in his own little world.
Read up on the "TN1" visa to see if you can make that work. It's supposed to be easier for Canadians than most others to work in USA due to NAFTA.
There are two of his points that are worth considering:

No demo - that is obviously stupid.
No business card - likewise.

The rest of his points assume that you want to get noticed in by people like Robert Scoble. Personally I would want to get noticed by potential users and I doubt having a midnight call with Arrington would be a benefit there.
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