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Sorry, but that is a nonsense excuse.

The (now abandoned) Spring.NET project[1] was started in 2004, not too long after (Java) Spring started.

It's easy to criticize Java Spring, but it's a good example of a long-lived successful Open Source project. It's also easy to argue that Spring isn't as useful in .NET as in Java.

But I can pull up many, may other examples (the .NET Lucene port etc).

My point is that the .NET OSS ecosystem is NOT a new thing, but it keeps getting killed off. The typical example is that a .NET project starts to solve a problem, gets it 30-40% solved, then Microsoft releases a project that solves a different 30-40% but sucks all the oxygen out of the ecosystem.

[1] http://springframework.net/news.html
that's true, but you need a ruby environment and some hooks to build Jekyll

I didn't want to build a new _generator_. I wanted a self-containing thing that doesn't need a runtime environment
I was there. EA optioned one of my games in 1989. Even the Wiki article gets it right: "In the late 1980s, the company began developing games in-house and supported consoles by the early 1990s."

They were a publisher and sort of a crappy one. And the reason EA exists today is because the tools/creativity group helped it weather the wacky games market.

The retro movement largely ignores all the amazing apps that were made back then. Old games are fun to play. Old apps? Not so much. Though you kids should. Now get off my lawn.
the city reveled in its diversity, with groups claiming distinct neighborhoods
It does sound like a situation where "excessive cleverness" is being applied to an engineering problem, where a simple/robust/passive/failsafe solution may be available.
> Diversity does not survive in expensive areas

Arguably true.

> I understand the problems rent-control causes, but if it were removed and all residential areas jump up to market price then diversity would be completely destroyed.

As a matter of theory, it's hard to see that rent control actually protects diversity. And emperically, it's absolutely not doing that, in San Francisco or in other cities which have tried it.

Here are you choices:

1. Remove restrictions on building. Housing will be plentiful, diversity will be expanded, but what currently makes the city special will be lost (and maybe it'll end up even better, but it'll certainly change).
2. Maintain restrictions on building. Housing will be scarce, diversity will be lost, but the city won't change.

Rent control is entirely orthogonal to this. IF you have scarce housing, then you must allocate it among the people who want it. One way to do this is via the market. If you do not like the way the market will allocate it, then you can cap the rents and allocate it in some other fashion. But as a society, we are extremely bad at allocating things fairly (hence why we rely on markets so much; it's not that they're very good, it's that we're really crap).

Which means that the way housing under rent control will inevitably be allocated isn't going to preserve diversity. Rent control makes the lucky few who get to live in the city even luckier, but it doesn't tell you who ends up being one of those lucky few. But we know, from decades of experience, that the lucky few end tend to up being the already privileged.

Notice that San Francisco—with strong rent control laws—is actually not a diverse city. Oakland—with weak ones—is one of the most diverse cities in the US. Similar patterns can be seen across the US. Your assumption that rent control aids diversity is supported neither by theory nor evidence; the fact that rent control could enable the poor to afford to live in a city doesn't mean that it will. And it doesn't.

What really helps diversity is having a lot of housing relative to the number of people who want to live there. San Francisco has scarce housing.
You know big rice, always throwing their weight around at the FDA.
I love the detail in this article! Recently, my uncle passed away, and I started thinking about the legacy of my photos (27k). The system the author describes works for him and he understands it in detail, but I wonder if anyone else in his family does. If (when?) he passes away, his heirs will not have enough free time in rest of their lives to evaluate his stored media. Likewise, does he have enough free time left in his life to view each of his media objects at least once more? One reason why our generation will "go dark" historically, may be that our heirs, facing terabytes of our data to review, on top of their own data, will simply walk away from the task and delete our data.
'Only works on windows right now' is the problem. :P
I wonder if we'd be here if our ancestors cooked rice in a way that did not reduce the arsenic content.
Here in the States read the label. Some varieties are pre-rinsed others are not. Don't mix it up. DAMHIKIJK.
While I agree with many of your indictments of liberal policies, your statement about drug addicts gives you away as someone who has little experience with addicts, except perhaps from a distance.

Anyone who has spent time around more than a handful of addicts knows that the addict experience spans the range of human personality types: slothful, industrious, peaceful, violent, smart, and dumb. Go to an AA meeting and you will see them all, just as you do in everyday society. And while there are certain personality traits that many addicts share (impulsiveness, etc), these traits have nothing to do with laziness or industriousness.

So while rewarding sloth makes for happy lazy people, the only thing that causes drug addicts is... drug addiction. And its causes -- mostly biological, but also situational -- go far beyond what anyone could describe in an HN comment.
Flight to the suburbs and hope that urbanization occurs before one turns 30 (unlikely).
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Housing restrictions protecting home values in Palo Alto. Lack of social services. These are relatively easy problems to exist that do not involve existential crisis.
I agree. How embarrassing for them that they even think they're worthy to be in the same geography as those who live in SF. Poor people should go to poor cities without economic resources, jobs or infrastructure. Say Detroit! That way they can be with other poor people and know their 'place'.

Residents of those cities can barely wait for the influx to take what few jobs they have and drive down already low wages, that's why illegal aliens are welcomed with such open arms.
So I'm not the only one who thought that was an odd line?
Thanks for sharing!

If interested in pseudonimity, an interesting keyword is "Direct Anonymous Attestation" -- the protocol was first invented in the context of the Trusted Computing and generated a lot of interesting research.
very useful article! two other options I used before are just installing base R on EC2, or using this RStudio AMI I found from a Google search: http://www.louisaslett.com/RStudio_AMI/
See, "I have in Berlin been" is 100% understandable at least to me... it might even be archaic but valid English grammar.
I think this will not make a big impact in developing countries like ours because carts are common.
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Also their documentation. I frankly find it a personal achievement to hear of people successfully navigating their documentation to a working solution.

Just like you, I got burned for about a hundred dollars whenever they switched their UI for EC2 to only show instances per region. I have no idea when that change happened, but they weren't loud enough announcing it.
San Francisco is basically 7 miles by 7 miles. How much of what is there are you going to tear down to accommodate the influx of tech? Since gold rush times San Francisco has seen ebb and flow of populations and boom and bust periods. There is continual change, that said if it allows continual teardown of existing buildings and building of high rises, might as well be in Manhattan.
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Austin is going through some similar issues. After a generation or two of anti-growth city leaders and crazy growth the last ~10 years, our roads are crowded, the public transport is a mess, and housing is going through the roof. Now they're playing catch up trying to make up for 25 years in the next few.. and it's physically impossible.

* I moved here 5 years ago, so I admit to "being part of the problem."
There is a well understood (and "generally accepted" [GAAP]) formula for operating profits:

Operating Profit = Operating Revenue - COGS - Operating Expenses - Depreciation & Amortization

AWS Q2 conf call slides:
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/External.File?item=UGFyZW50SUQ9M...

You can see on slide 15 "Segment Results-AWS" that the segment profit for Q2 was $391MM on net AWS sales of $1.842BB. Both numbers are for the quarter.

The article you linked talks about FCF, not operating income, and free cash flow is still hit with, in Amazon's case, what appears to be capital lease payments. (See slides 21 and 22 for the FCF reconciliation for newly acquired capital equipment, which they don't break out at the segment level.)

E&Y audits Amazon's financials. I'm not sure what evidence you have to suggest that Amazon is improperly "not counting" server expenses in AWS profitability numbers, but that would be an extraordinary claim, which would require some substantial evidence to overcome the presumption that E&Y and Amazon finance are correctly reporting.

It is true that E&Y has not signed a full-year audit for a year when AWS broke out AWS P&L separately, as that only happened for two quarters so far.
The neighborhoods in SF are very distinct. The Marina and the Mission are very different from each other. This makes the city as a whole diverse.

Bikes of San Francisco: https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4084/5112789301_da50dca4bd_b.j...
The README says "Part of my ongoing project about writing a lossless audio encoder" so it sounds like it's meant to be educational.
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That was a concern of mine until I created alerts. Now I get emailed if X goes over a threshold, and the instance can be shutdown after another threshold.
But a big piece of it is sf getting fucked by the nimbyism elsewhere.

viz Mountain View: they just authorized something like 3.4 million ft2 of office space between LinkedIn, Google, etc while supposedly they're giong to add 1.5k to 5k housing units. In the future. Where are the other, say, 15 to 20 thousand people going to live? Mountain View doesn't give a shit, but a bunch of them are going to have to life in sf, because that's where there's housing.
> I think german grammar is really diferent from english. For example they make a sandwich with verbs. For example:

> I have been in Berlin. vs I have in Berlin been.

Here's another example: "I took out the trash" vs "I took the trash out".
And in addition to all those things, they want to do it in a fixed land area with low density housing for everyone.

It's the ol' iron triangle. In this case the corners are something like "Affordable, desirable, no growth, pick two"
Better than either approach is to take both the objections and the computer-assisted explanations seriously. Then we might ask the following: What qualities do traditional explanations have that aren’t currently shared by computer-assisted explanations? And how can we improve computer-assisted explanations so that they have those qualities?

I am interested in this line of reasoning. Can anyone point me to relevant discussion (preferably scholarly)?
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Pardon my ignorance, but how would a system using a Galois Field work? All this stuff is really interesting to me.
Welcome Compose team to IBM. I sit in analytics tech sales and work with CDS (particularly Dash-DB) pretty regularly and am very excited to have you aboard.
>> Assuming random distribution (of plane of planets),

Has there been any research on this? I have no actual insight, but I'd guess the plane of the galaxy would affect plane of stellar rotation and perhaps also planetary disk alignment.
McDonalds, seriously? It tastes like pre-Pike Place roast Starbucks (circa 2006), whereas current Starbucks Veranda blend pourover is actually pretty good.
Why do we need another blog platform when we have Xanga? Why do we need another search engine when we have Altavista?
Hmm, it seems like you've forgotten Detroit's history. Why it became your go-to example for a failed city.
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I like this. Very cool :)
Wow, yeah. That would be an interesting one to read.
California: incessantly talks about the need for equality more than anyone else in the world; creates least equal, most economically stratified society in the United States where all except the independently wealthy feel uneasy.

Texas: makes fun of Californians who constantly preach about inequality; creates a pretty equal, egalitarian society that most citizens feel comfortable in.
They will send a repo person (possibly a trans pansexual) to bike away with your franchise!
Please don't confuse the frat boys with business degrees with the hackers who have strong roots in hippie culture.
Manhattan island is 33 square miles and its population is 1.6 million. San Fransisco's population is 800k. There's a lot of potential room for growth before it becomes Manhattan.
Maybe he confused it with Amazon retail rather recently switching from Akamai to CloudFront for static assets.
Do you mind elaborate the part of culture that will wear one down?
There is another way to look at this. The city serves two populations: people who currently live in a city, and people who would like to immigrate to the city.

As a resident of a growing city, I find it somewhat puzzling and inconvenient that it's taken as an article of faith that large city growth is a good thing. Growth is good, but it's also bad: it brings congestion, filth, and higher housing prices. Even with the development of affordable housing, housing prices still rise. Furthermore, the traffic associated with high-density houses places a strain on the transit system and other public infrastructure and services that the city is usually unequipped to handle. Transit is often upgraded far too late, long after congestion has negatively impacted the lives of residents. It's happening to me right now in my city: coworkers have reported their commute rising considerably over the past year.

So as the resident of a city who is happy with the way that it was, and is increasingly unhappy with the way it's becoming, what I'm wondering is: why should I not vote to block and prevent this growth? A lot of city politics talks as if growth is naturally a good thing that should always be pursued, but talk far less often of quality of life for residents. Growth often comes at the expense of current residents. (Gradual growth is healthy and necessary, but excess growth harms everyone.)

If discouraging high-density housing means higher housing prices, but buys me less congestion and a higher quality of life, then that seems like a good tradeoff to me as a resident. Otherwise, I get higher housing prices and more congestion and a worse quality of life. Cities should serve their current residents first, and prospective future immigrants second.

I suspect that the strategy that San Francisco residents are pursuing is a strategy designed specifically to make it expensive to live there, to discourage further immigration that they do not want.
Is anyone else here immediately turned off the moment a company mentions "carbon neutral"? I'm willing to look past it as a standard marketing slogan, like "natural", "fair trade", etc., but it stands out as a particularly unfortunate bit of language in almost all cases.
Well, those sorts of things cause the tests to immediately fail, and you realize the error of your ways. It's more deadly when you tests pass, but behaviour on production is different.
Not enough poor people from San Francisco moving there. I already told you.
It seems to require Javascript to load the content. Is there information about this elsewhere that doesn't require Javascript to view?
I've done this a couple times, and I would largely say don't do it since how terrible your environment becomes is largely dependent on things that are basically impossible to assess before starting.

The first time I was very junior but the programs that needed writing were mostly data crunching stuff or super simple rails apps that was simply a way to speed up the rest of the office. The company's core business was not in software and the fact that they could produce helpful code in house on demand was more of an added bonus. I also had experience with our domain so I was able to help out on non-coding issues when needed, as well as spot where a program could be helpful.

There were issues, though luckily I was able to work through with the management. The biggest is that as the sole dev in a non-dev shop you (assuming you show value after a couple projects) have a lot of people at the company giving you projects and this will likely outstrip your personal bandwidth. This can lead to feeling like you have n bosses where n is the population of the company minus one. The trick here is to get good at saying no as well as getting someone who is actually your boss and getting them to let you use them as a shield. The other problem is that you will probably run into estimate problems. Software estimates are frustratingly inaccurate when you're dealing with other devs, it gets much harder to explain to non-devs why "this little feature" is actually not so simple. The only thing that can help you here are your communication skills and other people's understanding/respect. Pad your estimates, if something really needs to get done wicked fast they'll let you know, otherwise just nicely surprise them getting it done early.

The second time I did it was terrible. The company was trying to develop a product that monitored sensor data and said it was going to expand the technical team. They also told me I could manage the technical project aspects myself since there weren't any other technical people.

Coworkers would pop in at least three times an hour to ask for help with Office or GoogleSomething or their phone, despite me reminding them that a) I'm not tech support, b) it's impossible to program if you're getting pulled away from your desk every 15-20 minutes. I was told that someone had met a programmer who could and so I should be able to.

My boss constantly was changing the requirements of the project as well as giving me "smaller projects" that weren't a part of the actual product. He would then be upset that despite working on Project F for two weeks we had made no progress on Project A for a whole two weeks! At one point the CEO demanded that I used a certain technology I had no experience using he got upset when I told him I had to devote some time to learning it.

Like any job these issues will largely depend on your coworkers and your boss(es), so YMMV but in my experience these issues are encouraged by the 1 techie vs n non-techies environment. Try to head off any of these issues early because if you let them get bad they will get intolerable.
Probably easier just to sniff their various MAC addresses.
FWIW I would get [motion] sick[ness] (not actually throwing up, but nauseated) from just playing Halo 1[1] on a regular TV (~32"). Could play fine in co-op/split screen though.

And while the "house on a hill"-demo that's bundled with DK2 is pretty bad wrt motion sickness -- I've logged quite a few hours in Elite: Dangerous without problems -- and have no problems with the spartan desk scene that's used for testing/setup of the DK2.

In short, I believe Oculus/Carmack's hard focus on fighting motion sickness has paid off a lot -- today's VR is nothing like the VR of the 90s.

I've yet to try the gear/paper-kit/other things thank the DK2 -- but that kit itself gives me no issues. Poor software/scene design does -- but we already have those issues with 2d (I doubt I'd be able to play Mirror's Edge -- although I haven't tried it).

[1] Ed to add: The team behind Halo 1 did a terrific job on camera motion, overall speed/paralax and scene design in fighting motion sickness. But still, at full screen, single-play I'd get uncomfortably motion sick after ~20-30 minutes. Enough that I never really played the game much in single player.
My guess is that many of their customers want to run Oracle software inside VMs. Probably big server farms that want VM containers it can deploy, boot, and reboot quickly as needed. For enough VMs, a VMWare or Parallels license will add up.
For those who haven't studied economics:

When you restrict the supply of something scarce or the demand for it goes up, the price increases.

In this case the "something" is housing. It's essentially illegal to build anything in the bay area which means the supply isn't changing much. But the demand is skyrocketing. Therefore the price is skyrocketing.

This would all be fixed very quickly if it was legal to buy some land, demolish what's on there, and build a skyscraper instead. San Francisco would look like Manhattan within two years.

If you study the 1906 earthquake, you find that a lot of people suddenly didn't have homes. They were all rehoused within a couple of weeks. Today, being illegal to build anything, and with rent controls on what does exist, we'd have a lot of homeless people for a long time.

We all want everyone to have a nice life, and we intend well with these laws. Economics concerns itself with what actually happens when you incent people though, not what we intend by those incentives.
Starbucks Owners?? I thought Starbucks owned most of the shops. http://www.starbucks.ca/customer-service/faqs/business

That is why the 'owner' doesn't care.
The NIMBYism is what makes San Francisco a nice place to live. You know Marin Headlands? They had plans to cover that whole area with a subdivision[1]. A bunch of NIMBYs got together back in the 60s and blocked that and now all these people who left some overbuilt sprawl to live here want to live near there. However, they want it to be cheap and want to drastically expand the urban footprint to make it cheap. Go figure.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marincello
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I leave it on all the time. I don't want to be bothered flipping switches when I want to use a feature. My phone is paired with my car, and I frequently use Airdrop to share photos and videos.
Yeah, that's nasty. It's a blog post, it's about as close to static content as you can get. It's not even listed in the pros and cons that this is a perceivable issue, which you can see once you allow the swathes of JavaScript to download and execute.
See: the entire rental car industry.
It was a joke, implying that people who can't commit will avoid databases like the plague
I had a ReadyNAS NV before they were bought by Netgear and though it was good. Unfortunately, I had more drives fail in the ReadyNAS than the computers I was making backups from. As time went on it became hard to find drives that were on the compatibility list.
Not me. I see it as a plus, not so much on saving the planet as a positive for the balance sheet. Carbon* is an externality, I would prefer to deal with/invest in a business that accounts for externalities instead of just producing them and hoping to evade the bill.
Really sorry about that - we've been trying to clean up and streamline our hiring process, and your application must have gotten lost in the shuffle. I hope your new gig works out well!
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Presumably this is what will happen to the entirety of the Central Waterfront from Mission Bay to Candlestick point.
Definitely agree. Though a warning, when convenient some people will overstretch metaphors and then hold you to the irrational conclusion. As some consolation, they would hold you to the irrational with or without the metaphor.