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Another vote for Golden Moon here. I have been using them for about 2 years now. Good tea at reasonable prices. Plus when you buy the bigger sizes (once you find the flavors you like in the starter kit) the leftover tins work for random storage containers.

Just a fantastic read. I am amazed that they were able to build all this stuff by hand whereas millions was spent by US and Russians for similar setups. Also, I couldn't imagine being watched by the KGB back in the day. It must have been no fun to walk around at night.

Interesting, it looks like prices are cheaper at the iBookStore than the direct purchases of the eBook from the O'Reilly store (not I only checked 3 books, but all were $2 to $3 cheaper). I wonder if this is just an initial sale or if it will stay that way.

Also, I love the jab about not being able to provide updates, so if you pay only $4.95 more, you can get lifetime updates. Sounds like the SlapChop guy should be doing an infomercial.

Yes, I believe they are engaged now (can't find a confirmation link though).

Also, I think a lot of people need to remember the movie only goes through 2005-ish when they got their 1,000,000th member and Sean Parker was forced out after the cocaine bust (which I gotta believe did not happen in the same day like the movie portrayed). This movie does not touch anything about current day Facebook and all the recent privacy issues or anything. It focuses on the ramp up and all the hurdles Zuck crossed to get there (regardless of whether he created those hurdles for himself or not).

Even if it did, would it matter? It is $2500 per transaction. I am sure it would only take 2 or 3 transactions for him to sell $100M worth of shares since there are so many people hot on being in at the floor (what they think is the floor) of the IPO which will inevitably happen just like it did with Google.

I am not a lawyer, but I think this idea sounds the most reasonable. As a side effort in case they do not like the proposal as drafted, you could maybe give them 2% (or some other number) of equity in any new entity you create to run with the idea with them giving up all rights at that point. It is a small amount of equity in the "new" business and the signed contract prevents them from coming back years from now and asking each for their 33%.

I agree, a very hateful thread when the guy was just thanking the community for the help and ideas/motivation they gave him.

With that said, I think I agree with the less hateful comments that Google bought the programmers behind the startup, not the product itself (though that was a bonus). Kind of like PG and others focus on the founders themselves as much if not more than their current product idea.

My gut feeling is they keep building because otherwise they go out of business. If they can open a development and slowly build a few houses (and get them sold) then they can continue to build out the development.

Based on those pictures and your comment, I would prefer that Florida re-issue licenses to contractors to continue building on sites that were half built before money ran out. This minimizes the continued over-development and keeps small communities from being stuck with a large HOA bill for the entire community when only 1/4 of the houses are sold.

I am not positive myself, but I believe that Greenplum and/or Netteza are built on top of Postgres (highly customized) DB engines to ensure their transactional integrity across their clustered servers.

Not only that, you would be amazed at how many people who have done something wrong end up with a guilty conscience and just tell the truth. Especially if there was something wrong going on here and the FBI hangs the "first to tell me what happened won't be prosecuted".

Note, not a hack, just a friendly piece of advice... Unless you plan to live in the same place for at least 5 years, do not buy, keep renting/leasing. A few years ago, you could buy and sell multiple times and each time not lose money because of rising property values. That time is gone, it may come back, but it may not. In a more normal market, closing costs and Realtor fees take up most appreciation of a place and it may take 5+ years of paying your mortgage (and thus reducing your principle) to sell the place without taking a loss when you include those fees at selling time. This is important if you are still young and have that itch to move around and find a place to call "home".

Yes there are a ton of other reasons why to buy a house and how to do it minimizing costs (which I am sure others will chime in with), but that one above is my favorite reason NOT to buy a house that I think everyone should think about.

Interesting, it worked with no issues for me and I am not a member (confirmed as it still shows the "log in" link at the top).

While I am not positive with whether I agree or disagree with your lunch hour statement. I would like the test re-done, but in Europe or Brazil, just not the USA. At multiple points, the article seems to be pointing out in so many words that Americans would do this because we are too busy or indifferent. But I am honestly interested if this was done in say London right outside a tube that lets off a majority of federal workers like L'Enfant to best replicate the scenario.

And honestly, I do not know if it would do any better in London or elsewhere. For anyone to say would probably be basing it on the stereotypes that the author alluded to. But what would really happen?

True, but hopefully if they are allowing unofficial apps, the official one will be allowed.

If it is not allowed by Apple again, maybe the "clarification" promise of the new App Store rules will officially tell Google what Apple doesn't like. At that point (i assume) Google will do one of the following:

1) Make the requested changes and get it approved.

2) If they don't like the requested changes, they will make a very public post on the Google Public Policy or Voice blog like they did about their complaint to the FCC about the original app rejection (http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2009/09/our-complete-...)

Also to note, it is possible that the original Google Voice app submitted last summer would not work with changes Google has made to Voice in the past year. So theoretically now that they know (or found out) that Apple will accept gVoice apps, Google could be working on updates to the app to get it to work before re-submitting it to Apple.

Either way, I think (hope?) that at some point in the near future the official app will come through.

Very interesting, I wonder how many people read about that issue and then went and checked their backups. Heck, I actually verified the backups on my home network after reading about this yesterday.

The way I read it was the problem was corruption inside the database and the warm backup was corrupted during the automatic mirroring before they noticed the problem. So at that point, both the PROD and Failover instance are busted once the issue was determined. To resolve, it looks like they had to rollback to the last valid full DB backup from Sunday and then apply the log backups iteratively from Sunday to catch up the DB before bringing it back online.

At my shop we had a similar issue (but at the SAN level, not the DB level) where the corruption issue was data that exposed a bug in the system. The data was automatically mirrored to the warm standby machine. When PROD crashed, the standby was brought up and immediately crashed also. We had to rebuild from tape backups which was stupid-slow (trademarked term there ;-). All in all it was a horrible mess that was root-caused to a bug in vendor firmware. Eerily similar to the JPMorgan Chase issue in the OP.

To be fair, Chrome beta channel is still v6 series (6.0.472.59 beta). The dev channel is v7 series already though I believe.

I think that is one of the more thorough accounts of that system I have seen published. All in one paragraph no less.

I totally agree on the knives. If you want easy brownie points I recommend purchasing for your mother (or father if he does the cooking) a set a nice knives for the Holidays or birthday one year. You will be a hero the first time they cut a tomato and don't squish it.

My mother still thanks me and it has been over 6 years since I gave her a set of Wüsthof.

Also, if you are married (or committed to your SO) and you have 2 incomes in the household, then $2k/month is actually a good amount of dough. It is probably getting in the zone of quit your day job money if you have further plans for your startup that require more focus and time.

I use Instapaper all the time. When I have 5 minutes before a meeting at work or early in the morning before I leave the house. The main thing I do is when I only have a small amount of time, I scan my normal sites for interesting articles and use the "Read Later" bookmarklet to add it to my reading list. I may add 20 things to the list in a quick 5 minute scan of HN, ESPN, Ars, & my email with links from friends of things like "gotta read this" or the like. Then when I have a bunch of free time (usually at night before bed), I sit down at my computer (or iPhone/iPad) and read through things I have saved. The text-only view on the iPhone and iPad is great.

I guess if you regularly have large chunks of time throughout a day, you would not need Instapaper. But if you are regularly running around all day with little to no downtime, it is nice to be able to sit down to one place and read through the days material.

Remember, not everyone lives in the Bay Area. ;-) Depending on where you live and if you have roommates, the $2k per month may be enough to pay rent, bills, college loans and leave some left over for spending money.

Yes, and that irks me. I can hide almost everything else in that side-bar. But this is mandatory taking up vertical space on my vertically challenged (widescreen) monitor. Grrr.

I am very interested in the Google Cloud print one. I love the ability to have printers all work with my phone, laptop, ipad whatever around my house without having to have a networked printer setup and the correct drivers, etc.

I agree with that sentiment. Every few months when I have some down time, I go through each feed and toss ones that are posting too much. It also allows me to toss ones that I added because they had an interesting post 3 months ago, but had crummy follow-up posts that just clog up reader since I do not read them.

I wonder if they see it as using the free (non-gApps) accounts to vet out the new features first rather than risk breaking paying customers accounts with new features that have random bugs that they did not catch in internal testing.

Johns Hopkins University researchers did a video where they got the RFID code from one of those gasoline auto-passes that you put on your keychain. It was a video where they sit next to someone with the RFID pass in their pocket, scan it with their laptop and then use the code at a gas station. I am at work and the link it blocked, but I do believe this here is the video and information. http://rfidanalysis.org/

I love the idea as I agree it is difficult to keep in the loop during the day with the volume of posts.

One quick request though, would it be possible in the RSS feed to send the entire post and not just the first ~125 characters?

Yes, but it goes to the levels of the students in the class. A lower level class is not the teachers fault (or may not be, and realistically is prior year's teachers, parents, and other outside influences), but it will limit the teacher from doing things such as the balloon since they need to really focus on the NSLB testing studies.

So a teacher may be very competent, but not have the right opportunities to do interesting stuff like this if they cannot easily and directly tie it to classroom studies, especially those around standardized tests. And unfortunately it seems like teachers with lower level students only have enough time to focus on getting them to pass those tests.

This is truly great. I hope the teacher(s) are doing a bunch of follow-up work teaching about how and why this worked. Also use that interest to drive into other topics such as how the balloon gets its lift versus a rocket engine.

This type of out of the ordinary teaching gets kids excited about learning. And the best part is because it is exciting, they probably do not even realize that they are "learning", they just go home and talk about all the awesome stuff they did putting a balloon into space. And the talk of that "stuff" is all the stuff they learned without needing to sit and study from a book or have a teacher lecture at you while you stare out the window.