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Hmm things will get interesting if the Android netbook distribution is closely compatible (or totally) with the phone version.

If you can easily run apps built for phones on a netbook and vice versa then I'd totally whip out Eclipse and start hammering out cheap Android apps. The problem will be if this fragments the Android SDK to a point where end user's cant tell if the application is going to work correctly on their device.

And of course another blow to Linux on the desktop because here is another platform to help you avoid the perils of the Linux GUI.

I didn't actually watch the whole video but eh do we really need to keep re-inventing the wheel so that there can be yet another [insert language] interpreter?

Scheme has a natural tree structure to exploit anyhow, show me a C++ interpreter in 15 minutes and I'll be impressed ;)

someone going for a fishing trip?

I don't get it. Do we really care if Microsoft and a bunch of incompetent developers enjoy epic fail on the Azure platform?

@optimizing why not do something like a fresh fruit/vegetable cart that rolls through every morning at say 8am. The cart is actually backed/financed/supported by some bigger "rich folk" store (Shaws/Krugers/whatever) and is only available from 8am to 10am.

This, theoretically reduces the "cost of doing business" since the likely hood that you get mugged for vegetables and fruit in broad daylight is probably pretty low.

Following from the article, low cost of doing business should mean lower costs - even if you factor in gas and such you should still be able to beat the corner market and cut a profit since you are selling "big box" product at a markup...

<disclaimer> I'm pretty drunk </disclaimer> So what happens when you graduate? is it proper form to go through and un-friend everyone? Or do you just let the connections sit around stale?

And then to add to the confusion my LinkedIn social graph is wildly disconnected from my Facebook social graph. When do I de-friend? When do I only network "professionally"? Why am I even on a social network?

</drunk>

It seems like this should be a huge opportunity for someone to come in and optimize things.

The "pay day advance" stuff seems particularly wasteful and generally awful. Even my credit card company won't charge me $50 to front me $300 in cash. Hell on a clean card with one of those "0% APR for 6 months" I could probably cut myself a 3k bridge loan and pay almost nothing. (assuming I just pay minimums and then if the 0% APR expires I clear the balance).

get yourself a discrete math textbook (I can't remember what I used). A sprinkling of things that will come up: set theory, probability (Bayesian), Big-O notation and associated meanings, worst/best/avg case analysis, amortized cost, induction, some algebra, ect

if you don't really understand all the math surrounding some fancy algorithm it probably isn't all that important. and everyone's favorite line in a CS proof is of course "without loss of generality".

I'd vote for the irony because I can't opt out of signing in, I can't sign in with fbconnect, I can't use OAuth, I can only enter the walled garden that is NYT for no apparent benefit.

I guess it could be worse - all the NYT content could be paid subscription.

and the irony is now I can't even read the article without logging into NYT.

Second this. Go to some fund raising events, shake the right hands, hand out some cards. Depending on how big your town is, you may be able to just contact a local lobbying group and ask who to talk to.

As tin foil hat as it may sound - bribery and corruption is rampant in governments especially the small local ones.

If you are talking about using MySQL like memcache (so persistence isn't an issue) check out MYISAM MEMORY tables - http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/memory-storage-engine...

Super fast but if the server dies so does all your data...

this sentence struck me as particularly shocking: "Most of the profits generated by the Big Three in North America came not from manufacturing vehicles but from financing the sale of those vehicles." how could anyone think that was responsible business?

I can only speak to my personal gold card (which is pretty new) but I've also had issues with my card being frozen unexpectedly for charges they thought were illegitimate.

I think the big rub here is that American Express will freeze your card without informing you first. This leads to the uncomfortable situation where you try and swipe the card and it is immediately declined

Hopefully things will settle down in the next few months.

What I can say is that so far AMEX customer service has been top notch - my issues have always been handled promptly and professionally . Their travel services division also came through in a pinch a few months ago.

I noticed that also - even at 5k/license that is buying at least 2 more dedicated boxes to throw (name your FOSS RDBMS) on

the obvious problem is that it's going to take a generation of browsers before everyone has native <canvas> support along with a respectable Javascript engine.

IE6 market share is still 17% with IE7 at ~25% (source: http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp)

I can't imagine advanced Processing/JS is going to run well without native canvas and SpiderMonkey/V8/Squirrelfish

Being 21 I'd say the last point about 'Give the big middle finger to the good or bad opinion of others' is really solid advice. Every time I tell a parent/relative/family friend that I'm working for myself after I graduate I get this blank stare and then a "why don't you work for Google or something?"

I guess in ten years I'll have to reflect and see how all this outrageous risk turns out.

Use a WYSIWYG? I mean if you seriously can't wrap your head around HTML/CSS maybe you're in the wrong business...

More than the actual distro I'd say look into what kernel you are loading on there. Make sure you're running a nice tight kernel with any extra fluff turned off (or loading as modules).

I can't find the papers off hand but there has been some research into how kernel level cache tweaks will dramatically effect how web servers and DB servers will perform.

I'm sad to see the doors close on Wikia Search. I was an intern in the NYC office last summer. The project had a refreshingly open philosophy and was built using FOSS components.

At least the index is still available at http://index.isc.org/

Boston here to

I'm calling bullshit. The whole article sounds like it came out of the NY Daily Post. There are what maybe 10-15 hedge funds that have enough capital to make something like this stick?

On the other hand, fake internal memos cause APPL to fly all over the place...

Not sure about this. I've tried to use OpenDNS behind a "buy my wireless for 24 hours" at an airport and I still got the page requesting me to buy a page.

Also, even when I pinged servers the IPs were resolving to their "purchase" page. Unfortunately, I didn't have an IP of a site on hand to see if I could request by IP out.

I might be wrong, but wouldn't this not help the situation at airports where the AP resolves all DNS requests to a page that is like "pay for service!"?

I was under the impression that in those configurations the AP intercepts all the DNS packets and responds with a fixed IP.

It would be nice to get around port blocking filters though...

The point about text editors is absurd. One because comparing TextMate to vim or emacs is almost apples and oranges. And secondly because writing something Java without completions is going to be horrendously slow just because of all the arcane function and property names.

The article is much more alarmist than I feel like the original PDF intends the data to be. It seems like an obvious conclusion that a few well capitalized brokerage and investment firms would be majority stakeholders across several markets.

I'd be more startled if I saw say "xyz US Government holding company" somewhere on the list. But then I'd have to find my tinfoil hat...

(mt)'s gs offering has been absolutely terrible for us. Since the summer uptime and support have both been equally awful. The only redeeming quality of the gs service is the insanely large storage (100gb).

strangely enough I was poking around Android this weekend as well - http://shout.setfive.com/2009/02/23/hello-android/

all and all, pretty smooth experience. now if only we had some Android phones...

Unfortunately "Q: Is the spending data on recovery.gov available in a format (like XML) that developers can use to create mashups and gadgets? A: Not at this time. But, as new systems are developed to capture the allocations and expenditures under the Act, we plan to make that data available in exportable form"

http://www.recovery.gov/?q=content/frequently-asked-question...

This is pretty interesting also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ablation_cascade especially considering the events of the last few days.