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Andrew Stone is also ex-Basho ;)

are there any sample applications available on GitHub?

I've implemented this system already in code

It doesn't look like you have. I watched the demo video "GUN Survives a Primary Fault" and the conflicting updates were resolved with a LWW semantic, which is non-deterministic.

(EDIT: I read some docs, and it looks conflicts are resolved by choosing the highest lexical order of the value. So, apologies for the assumption. I assumed LWW because the BBBBBB update was seen last after the fault was resolved. Nonetheless, I think it is interesting you're treating the browser as a peer in the system, and not simply a client)

this is now available to developers - with or without the academic side.

I don't understand this attitude. Working closely with academics ought to be what industry strives for. They take the time to research, formalize theorems and write proofs to advance the current state of the art in Computer Science. This research helps move industry forward. A tight relationship between industry and academia is mutually beneficial, for what should be obvious reasons.

now this looks like someone who actually knows some computer science: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BmkxqS_CIAApWeb.jpg

I doubt the author has read even half of the papers he listed.

hi, ex-basho here. disappointed by antirez's continued, harmful anti-intellectualism. just curious, what exactly is a non-CA database? kthxbai

managing the # of actors, safely dealing with tombstones and reducing space complexity are just a few reasons why one might want CRDTs on the server side.

CRDTs can either be commutative or convergent; much of industry and academia have settled on the opaque "conflict-free" instead of CmRDT/CvRDT for simplicity

+1 to http://realtalk.io

I was speaking with Eric Redmond about this conference last week. Sounds more interesting than a conference about writing documentation might initially appear to be.

If my schedule permits I plan on attending.

Thank you for the links, but in the future don't put words in my mouth and then use them as a basis to insult me.

Calling the game market "sinister" borders on hyperbole.

Horia Dragomir and Stephanie Kaiser from Wooga gave a presentation[0] on metrics driven game development at GOTO Copenhagen earlier this year. Through the lens of one of their more popular franchises "Monster World", they discussed, among other things, A/B testing and the surprisingly short life (days to weeks) of a game feature before it becomes irrelevant. Nothing in their talk suggested late night meetings in dark corners, plotting to turn their users into addicts. Rather, they discussed adapting to rapidly changing trends and patterns--which sometimes but not always included introducing new in-game purchase items.

If on the surface the game industry as a whole appears to you to be an online equivalent of a casino, thats fine. What I see are dedicated and passionate engineers trying to ensure the survival a product in which they've dedicated years of their lives to getting right, by employing many of the same techniques nearly every other user facing tech company uses everyday, and I for one am not ready to cast the first stone and accuse entire industries of moral bankruptcy.

[0] http://gotocon.com/cph-2012/presentation/The%20Metrics%20Des...

>> A very small percentage of people buy stuff in games. Of this small percentage you have people who will spend a LOT. These are your die hard fans. I know, because I am one of them and won’t bat an eye spending $50 in a game I like.

I would love to analyze the in-game purchase data across multiple free-to-play games on multiple platforms (e.g. facebook, app store, etc) in order to see the distribution of user spending habits. While I'm sure there are power users who spend magnitudes more than the average, I'm skeptical that they're the main driver of revenue. What I'd like to see is the average % of users who make in-game purchases, the average in-game purchase over time, frequency of purchases and what % of total revenue the average represents.

Unfortunately, I don't think Zynga et al will be releasing this data publicly anytime soon.

we're in the process of a complete overhaul of our website--not to sound like a broken record, but...stay tuned :)

That video should be available within a few weeks, so stay tuned.

Also, Anthony Molinaro from OpenX will be speaking at RICON, the distributed systems developer conference we're hosting i October. Tickets are still available :)

http://basho.com/community/ricon2012/

you mean like this? http://wiki.basho.com/Installation.html

We'll be recording not only every talk, but also other events surrounding the conference.

If the network god's allow for it, live-streaming of the talks is also being considered.

Ethics aside, an employer asking for login access to your Facebook profile is a violation of Facebook's TOS.

That being said, I don't care how difficult the job market is--if a potential employer demonstrates that they have no regard for your personal privacy during the interview process, you should thank them for their time, smile and never look back.

"Ambition is key because he[Bill Gates] could have left Microsoft much earlier, and moved on to do anything else he wanted as extremely wealthy man. He was already a billionaire when he chose to stay, and turned Microsoft into an empire."

Value creates opportunity.

I'm not suggesting that Bill Gates wasn't/isn't ambitious, but if one of your ventures has made you a billionaire I'd imagine it be much easier to stay on board and see how far you can ride that train.

I've always felt a little conflicted regarding term limits. While they are one possible solution for cutting dead weight, the problem is you also end up needlessly firing people who do a good job.

> The content distributors are strangling themselves because they're trying to protect their existing means of distribution and refuse to adopt new ones that people actually want to use and pay for.

In 2008 Starz and Netflix entered into an agreement where Netflix would be able to license and distribute Starz media for $30 million. Said contract expired, Netflix offers $300 million to renew, and Starz rejects the offer under the premise that their content is worth more.

Now Starz, like HBO (eg. HBO Go), is planning to roll out their own streaming service--which I would say is both an attempt to protect their means of distribution as well as an effort to adopt to new models.

As an aside, I tried to use HBO Go a few weeks ago...and was prompted to enter the details of my cable tv service in order to gain access. I didn't have the time/patience to proceed and decided to read instead.

All I can say is if every content distribution company expects users to pay a separate fee, etc, for streaming content they're SOL. Evidence of Netflix, Hulu, iTunes and the like show that people prefer one-stop shopping.

Edit: typo

> How many of them will drop support because it's the right thing to do vs. the political thing to do?

Hopefully the same number who initiated support because it was the political thing to do in the first place.

The better question to ask: who in congress has both read and understand the implications of the bills? I'm inclined to think that number is ridiculously small.

> I don't understand how you can just add the high school, some college, and bachelors to get 20%.

That is exactly what I did. In my original response, I wrote aggregate unemployment for anyone who holds a HS diploma (regardless of higher level education) is 20%. I wasn't trying to be misleading, I just thought it was interesting to see that the aggregate for all non-high school dropouts.

Anyway, after looking at the article again, the author claims the unemployment stats come from 2009-2010 US Census and a study done at the Georgetown Center on Education and Workforce, broken down by age group. The BLS scope is obviously much larger and current.

I just resigned from a 4 year stint in the finance industry--not exactly a startup, but the same elements of meritocracy and self-driven achievement were involved in creating the tunnel vision most here, especially the OP, might appreciate.

The result: I have been left with more "free"/me time over the past 2 months than I can remember. The first 1-2 weeks I slept in till about 11am most everyday, due to sheer exhaustion coupled with the fact that I didn't HAVE to be up and alert for anything/anybody. Since then I have been rekindling old passions and finding a new appreciation for so many things I'd forgotten in the course of my work. I can only hope in the future--when I move on to my next project/job/career---I don't take so many things for granted.

> Can anyone find a source for the unemployment rate of high school graduates? 22.9% is astoundingly high, if true.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics is always a great place to look.

Employment status of the civilian population 25 years and over by educational attainment: http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t04.htm

According to this (last updated Dec 02, 2011) the not-seasonally adjusted aggregate unemployment for anyone who holds a HS diploma (regardless of higher level education) is 20%.

Edit: I didn't mean to cause any confusion by aggregating the "non-hs-dropout" stats, so let me make it clearer:

Level of Education : Unemployment Rate High School Dropout: 12.7% High School Diploma: 8.4% Some College/AA Deg: 7.4% Bachelors or Higher: 4.2%

>Eh, I'm sure some hefty salaries being paid with the revenues makes employees happy at least.

We grew from 37 employees as of June 30, 2009 to 10,418 employees as of September 30, 2011.

If not hefty, than numerous...

Why Groupon employs over 10k people is beyond me, even if most of their employees are in accounts/sales it seems those numbers are a bit excessive. I have personally worked as a salesman for over 4 years, personally handling hundreds of clients on 5 different continents. I'm now very curious to know what its like to work at Groupon.

I was disappointed when Time magazine named "the Protester" person of the year for 2011. A blackout of major web services would amount to little more than a stunt. Sure, the mainstream media will run the story for the first day...but for how long will these services remain willfully unavailable? Who will cave in first and go back online without resolution?

It seems to me that the popularity of activism and protesting do little to affect change, whereas more commonly yes than no they simply represent an inconvenience to everyone else who can't be bothered with another struggle/burden in their lives. There must be more mature and effective means of defeating SOPA than having a group of web services throwing a temper tantrum.

Was it a difficult negotiation?

We increased our revenue from $1.2 million in the second quarter of 2009 to $430.2 million in the third quarter of 2011. We generated these revenues from gross billings of $3.3 million for the second quarter of 2009 as compared to gross billings of $1,157.2 million for the third quarter of 2011. We had net income of $21,000 for the second quarter of 2009 as compared to a net loss of $10.6 million for the third quarter of 2011.

Source: Groupon, Inc. Form 424B4 Prospectus (http://investor.groupon.com/secfiling.cfm?filingID=1047469-1...)

Edit: So to answer your question, exacerbate its losses.

This isn't so much of a case of Google getting a "free pass" as it is a simply a coincidence that they have provided campaign contributions to a politician who happens to support SOPA. I am willing to bet they have made more contributions to other supporters as well.

Did you actually look at the distribution table? The donations occurred on 11 separate occasions in amounts no larger than $2,000 over the past 5+ years.

This is a non-event, and IMHO does not belong on the top of HN.