moomba

I'm wondering why you're saying linux has no place in distributed computing. Most supercomputers and distributed systems run linux. Not sure what paradigm shifts are going to have a significant impact on the OS. The only changes I've seen are in hardware/programming syntax as of late.

This is the first thing I change in any linux system I'm working with. I've become completely dependent on prefixed history.

Never liked the Ctrl+R thing.

Yea, Strings in Java take up much more memory than one would expect.

Minimum String memory usage (bytes) = 8 * (int) ((((no chars) * 2) + 45) / 8)

http://www.javamex.com/tutorials/memory/string_memory_usage....

Objects in general also have significant overhead.

Looks like the iphone version of an Android phone. Doesn't seem like a really good phone. Although the UI seems less cluttered. That is my one big complaint about Android. None of the phone manufacturers have wrapped Android UI in nice way either.

Not sure I'd call neo4j NoSQL. Its a graph DB as listed in the link. Is the new trend to call any data store that is not SQL, NoSQL. I even heard Lucene being called NoSQL, http://www.lucidimagination.com/blog/2010/04/30/nosql-lucene.... I guess search engines are NoSQL now?

His quote, "Storage is pretty cheap but data acquisition and computation are even cheaper" seems a little out there. Data storage has gotten extremely cheep over the past decade. Computation on the other hand only will get much cheaper if it is considerably parallel.

I remember when I was taking an assembly class in college we always joked about how ridiculous it would be to write an OS in assembly. I'm surprised someone actually did it.

C is so close to assembly that these seems quite unnecessary. Although I do agree with one of the developer's points that Assembly has a kind of beauty about it.

What a steal...

But, don't feel afraid to go into excess when the time permits. Life is about pushing the boundaries.

I've read many articles, but don't do it for the sake of reading. It usually accompanies other reading on said subject.

You probably are never going to use the original code you put down, so its kind of irrelevant how you start designing your web app. The most important thing is to start working. By doing this you will know what works and what doesn't. This will help you in your next iteration.

Adam Curtis' stuff is great. Thanks for putting this up. I'd recommend you check out his latest series about freedom. The points he makes in that one are even more interesting.

I doubt that this product will become successful.

I'm not concerned so much with the publicity and the undeserved donations. The article does bring up a good point about having these "seeds" serve their own mini social networks. I don't see how the average user will plan on taking up this task.

Not sure why he says, they're not your ideas anyway. If that was the case, you wouldn't be hoarding them.

Looks like a typo in Rule 3. Should say, "Possessive nouns never use an apostrophe." This point is alluded to in the body of the rule.