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66,799 | terpua | 2007-10-12T11:55:07 | Blind Search Test Results | null | http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/10/search-engine-comparison-poll-results.html | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
66,800 | ideas101 | 2007-10-12T11:56:34 | Ten strategic technologies for 2008 | http://infotech.indiatimes.com/quickiearticleshow/2449189.cms | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | no_article | null | null | null | null | 2024-11-08T15:00:16 | null | train |
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66,803 | drm237 | 2007-10-12T12:03:28 | Crazy Web valuations | I just took a stab at figuring out what's up with some of these seemingly crazy Web valuations and buyout deals, from $10 billion-plus for Facebook to (and I really can't believe this) up to $500 million for RockYou. | http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat/archives/2007/10/valuations_and.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_blogspotting | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
66,805 | drm237 | 2007-10-12T12:04:44 | The Irony of Raising Money For a Startup | 'm going to guess that this has never happened before. I recently left my day job to spend more time on my own startup, and to spend more time raising money. About the same time, another local web startup contacted me and offered me a job. It was a pretty good offer. | http://www.businesspundit.com/50226711/the_irony_of_raising_money_for_a_startup.php | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
66,809 | tim | 2007-10-12T12:29:45 | Djangogigs: Find Developers. Find Jobs. | http://djangogigs.com/ | 3 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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66,813 | iamwil | 2007-10-12T13:10:11 | Highly available distributed hash storage from Amazon | null | http://glinden.blogspot.com/2007/10/highly-available-distributed-hash.html | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | no_error | Highly available distributed hash storage from Amazon | null | null |
Amazon CTO Werner Vogels announces an awesome SOSP 2007 paper he co-authored with nine other people at Amazon, "Dynamo: Amazon's Highly Available Key-value Store" (PDF).Like the Google File System and Google Bigtable papers, this Amazon paper describes a critical part of Amazon's infrastructure, a reliable, fast, and scalable storage system.Some excerpts from the paper:There are many services on Amazon's platform that only need primary-key access to a data store ... [and] using a relational database would lead to inefficiencies and limit scale and availability.Dynamo uses a synthesis of well known techniques to achieve scalability and availability: Data is partitioned and replicated using consistent hashing, and consistency is facilitated by object versioning. The consistency among replicas during updates is maintained by a quorum-like technique and a decentralized replica synchronization protocol. Dynamo employs a gossip based distributed failure detection and membership protocol ... Storage nodes can be added and removed from Dynamo without requiring any manual partitioning or redistribution.In the past year, Dynamo has been the underlying storage technology for a number of the core services in Amazon's ecommerce platform.The paper overall is fascinating, not only for the discussion of Amazon's needs and how the authors thought about them when building Dynamo, but also for critical discussion of other distributed databases. The related work section (Section 3) is worth its weight in gold.A paper on a Amazon distributed database immediately invites comparison with the Google Filesystem and Bigtable. Unlike Google FS (and also unlike distributed databases like C-store), Amazon's Dynamo oddly is optimized for writes. From the paper:Many traditional data stores execute conflict resolution during writes and keep the read complexity simple.Dynamo targets the design space of ... a data store that is highly available for writes ... We push the complexity of conflict resolution to the reads in order to ensure that writes are never rejected.This choice surprises me and does appear to lead to some problems later. The 15ms average read latency seems high if any service needs to make more than a dozen database queries when serving a web page; latencies like that make this a pretty heavyweight data store service.As they described in the paper, at least a few groups at Amazon needed a much lighter weight service that could be hit thousands of times, so they had to use rather extreme parameters (requiring all replicas be available for writes, and only one for reads) to force Dynamo to work for them. With those parameters, they effectively turned off the high availability for writes and pushed the complexity of conflict resolution back away from reads, which makes me wonder if write optimization really should have been part of Dynamo's design goals in the first place.Another difference with Google FS and Bigtable is that Google's systems organize data as a map, supporting high performance range scans over the data. On the one hand, Google may have more need for that, with its building of search indexes and analyzing massive text and log data. On the other hand, Amazon has massive text and log data too, and Dynamo seems like it may not be able to help with large scale data indexing and analysis tasks.On both not supporting range scans and the optimization for writes over reads, the source of that appears to be that the authors focused on the needs of the shopping cart. They repeatedly return to that as a motivating example. It is not clear to me why they choose to focus on that task over their other needs.I had a couple other surprises. Dynamo relies on random, uniform distribution of the keys for load balancing -- something that seems likely to run into problems with highly skewed access patterns -- rather than supporting additional replication of frequently accessed data. More serious, Dynamo is limited to a few hundred nodes because they punted on some of the hard problems of ensuring consistency in metadata (like their routing table) at larger scale.Overall, a very interesting paper and system from Amazon. I love how Amazon has adapted the motivation of P2P distributed hash tables like Chord and Pastry to an environment with all trusted machines like an Amazon data center, taking advantage of that to reduce latency and improve reliability. I also am impressed by how remarkably configurable Dynamo is -- from the underlying storage to the number of replicas to the means of conflict resolution -- so that it can adapt to the widely varying needs of different groups at Amazon.By the way, unlike Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft, Amazon publishes academic papers only rarely. They deserve kudos for doing so here. With this paper, Amazon is revealing some of the remarkable challenges in large scale computing they face. As people are attracted to those challenges, perhaps this will be the start of more openness from Amazon.
| 2024-11-08T04:50:38 | en | train |
66,818 | regularjoe | 2007-10-12T13:25:53 | Ask PG: How many applications? | Unlike other cycles, Y Combinator has recieved a lot of publicity lately.
This has changed somewhat the number of applications? How many have been received? | 14 | 16 | [
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66,826 | nickb | 2007-10-12T13:39:31 | MCL (Macintosh Common Lisp) going opensource! | http://article.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.mcl.general/2500 | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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66,828 | ivankirigin | 2007-10-12T13:46:36 | Idea Week, Day #5: Full resolution online video, on the cheap | null | http://www.tipjoy.com/our2cents/2007/10/full_resolution_online_video_o.html | 1 | 1 | [
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66,830 | transburgh | 2007-10-12T13:50:25 | Wikipedia Hits Mid Life Slow Down | null | http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/11/wikipedia-hits-mid-life-slow-down/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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66,832 | pg | 2007-10-12T14:00:38 | Wikipedia edits apparently declining, peaked in early 2007 | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dragons_flight/Log_analysis | 8 | 8 | [
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66,838 | mattculbreth | 2007-10-12T14:16:45 | A Bruise or Two on Apple's Reputation | http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_43/b4055070.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index_businessweek+exclusives | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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66,842 | nickb | 2007-10-12T14:26:49 | Q&A: Foul-Mouthed Blogger Ted Dziuba Tells Why Most Startups Fail | null | http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/news/2007/10/dzubia_qa | 28 | 41 | [
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66,843 | catalinist | 2007-10-12T14:29:26 | Web 2.0 IS Google | http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2005/pulpit_20051117_000873.html | 5 | 1 | [
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66,846 | nickb | 2007-10-12T14:31:45 | Paper prototyping: IT's best kept secret? | null | http://www.openxtra.co.uk/blog/2007/10/11/paper-prototyping-its-best-kept-secret/ | 6 | 1 | [
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66,847 | nickb | 2007-10-12T14:32:25 | Patent Infringement Lawsuit Filed Against Red Hat & Novell - Just Like Ballmer Predicted | http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20071011205044141 | 5 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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66,848 | nickb | 2007-10-12T14:33:58 | The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing (excellent free book) | http://www.dspguide.com/ | 9 | 5 | [
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| 2024-11-08T00:18:16 | en | train |
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66,849 | nickb | 2007-10-12T14:40:10 | McCarthy: Programming - You're Doing It Wrong | null | http://lemonodor.com/archives/2007/10/youre_doing_it_wrong.html | 32 | 6 | [
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66,850 | nickb | 2007-10-12T14:41:32 | Coding Horror: A Lesson in Control Simplicity | null | http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000975.html | 5 | 0 | null | null | null | timeout | null | null | null | null | 2024-11-08T11:07:31 | null | train |
66,851 | nickb | 2007-10-12T14:44:50 | Write less, do more - a quick introduction to jQuery | null | http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/jquery-write-less-do-more/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
66,852 | nickb | 2007-10-12T14:47:03 | Legal advice every startup founder should know (with Fred Greguras of Fenwick and West) | http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2007/10/ten-questions-1.html | 31 | 8 | [
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66,855 | joshwa | 2007-10-12T14:59:50 | LinkedIn Plans to Open Up in a Closed Sort of Way | http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/12/linkedin-plans-to-open-up-in-a-closed-sort-of-way/index.html?hp | 9 | 3 | [
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66,863 | sharpshoot | 2007-10-12T15:13:39 | Ask news YC: Your best sources to learn about design & usability | Hey, what are the best blogs/websites you read to learn more about good design and usability? I'm sure this could help a few of us here. | 58 | 31 | [
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66,899 | nickb | 2007-10-12T16:32:03 | Online Advertising: Are Web ads set for a downturn? | null | http://valleywag.com/tech/online-advertising/are-web-ads-set-for-a-downturn-310221.php | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | fetch failed | null | null | null | null | 2024-11-07T20:04:21 | null | train |
66,902 | nickb | 2007-10-12T16:35:11 | Internet Recession Watch: Falling Ads, Taxes, Housing | null | http://www.alleyinsider.com/2007/10/internet-rece-2.html | 4 | 2 | [
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66,903 | bootload | 2007-10-12T16:37:56 | The Social Network Operating System | http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/10/social_network_operating_system.html | 10 | 2 | [
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66,904 | bootload | 2007-10-12T16:40:16 | More Gmail storage coming for all | http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2007/10/more-gmail-storage-coming-for-all.html | 8 | 4 | [
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66,905 | bootload | 2007-10-12T16:42:37 | Google Maps Now Native S60 | http://www.symbian-guru.com/welcome/2007/10/google-maps-now.html | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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66,906 | bootload | 2007-10-12T16:44:52 | Google Gives Some Hints About Social Network Plan | http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/11/google-hints-at-social-network-plan/ | 5 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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66,919 | bootload | 2007-10-12T17:24:38 | Tech titans seek virtual world interoperability | http://www.nytimes.com/cnet/CNET_2100-1043_3-6213148.html?_r=1&oref=slogin | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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66,920 | luccastera | 2007-10-12T17:25:54 | glTail.rb - realtime logfile visualization | http://www.fudgie.org/ | 25 | 3 | [
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The movie shows HTTP traffic on some personal web sites.
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| 2024-11-08T13:52:33 | en | train |
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66,922 | davidw | 2007-10-12T17:33:58 | The age of mass innovation | http://www.economist.com/specialreports/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9928291 | 10 | 4 | [
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66,926 | markpeterdavis | 2007-10-12T17:37:56 | Do Not Stand While Presenting To VCs | In your meeting with a VC ignore those magazine ads that show an executive standing and pointing at a pie chart while other executives sitting around the board room clap. Those images don't apply to venture. Plain and simple, don't stand unless you have to... | http://getventure.typepad.com/markpeterdavis/2007/10/do-not-stand-wh.html | 19 | 12 | [
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66,932 | kashif | 2007-10-12T17:53:01 | PG: Any luck fixing our karma | Refer - <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=63583" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=63583</a><p>And this is why I think you might have some time on your hands - <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=66898" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=66898</a> | 1 | -1 | null | null | true | invalid_url | null | null | null | null | 2024-11-08T16:37:59 | null | train |
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66,934 | brianfrank | 2007-10-12T17:55:55 | Ask YC: Different cultures in The Valley? | Is there a "cultural divide" between hackers and business-types in Silicon Valley -- analogous to C.P. Snow's famous distinction between scientists and literary intellectuals? <p>If so, how might it effect productivity/creativity? <p>If not, could Silicon Valley be (or become) the main venue for the "emerging third culture" talked about by John Brockman and the edge.org crowd? | 1 | 1 | [
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66,938 | mhartl | 2007-10-12T18:05:04 | The hundred thousand | http://eikonoklastes.org/articles/2007/10/11/the-hundred-thousand | 3 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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66,941 | drm237 | 2007-10-12T18:08:17 | Y Combinator's webcam can't touch MC Hammer | MC Hammer's rap career may have been over more than a decade ago, but to the startup kids at Y Combinator, he'll always be a superstar. First, he awkwardly pitched Weebly's MySpace profile editorSnapLayout to lifecaster Justine Ezarik, better known as iJustine of Justin.tv. Now, Hammer has made an iminlikewithyou profile. | http://valleywag.com/tech/vloggers/y-combinators-webcam-cant-touch-mc-hammer-310237.php | 7 | 7 | [
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66,947 | amichail | 2007-10-12T18:17:39 | 10 Million Dollar Ideas That Shouldn't Have Worked | http://weirdfactshere.wordpress.com/2007/10/11/really-weird-facts-10-million-dollar-ideas-that-shouldnt-have-worked/ | 1 | 1 | [
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66,967 | DocSavage | 2007-10-12T18:48:44 | Rails 1.2.5: Security and maintenance release | http://weblog.rubyonrails.com/2007/10/12/rails-1-2-5-maintenance-release | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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66,978 | bdougsand | 2007-10-12T19:10:49 | Brain-computer interface for controlling Second Life avatars | http://scienceblogs.com/neurophilosophy/2007/10/braincomputer_interface_for_co.php | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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66,987 | german | 2007-10-12T19:41:33 | Crash Course in Learning Theory | http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2006/01/crash_course_in.html | 10 | 1 | [
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67,013 | brintoul | 2007-10-12T20:26:38 | Question | Am I wrong? | http://s3.amazonaws.com/brintoul/tiredofgoogle.html | 2 | -1 | null | null | true | no_title | null | null | null | null | 2024-11-08T06:32:07 | null | train |
67,015 | charzom | 2007-10-12T20:35:43 | Twenty-something uncertainty "a sensible response to modern conditions" | http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/09/opinion/09brooks.html?em&ex=1192334400&en=897f2f6a2bc50b49&ei=5070 | 12 | 1 | [
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67,017 | Goladus | 2007-10-12T20:38:59 | Are Private High Schools Better Academically Than Public High Schools? | There's a PDF summary at the link. The gist is that students at private high schools probably would have done equally well had they gone to a public high school.<p>Two exceptions are noted: Private High Schools appear to have an effect on SAT scores. Also Catholic Schools run by a Holy Order (such as Jesuit) actually did show some benefits. | http://www.cep-dc.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=document.showDocumentByID&nodeID=1&DocumentID=226 | 4 | 2 | [
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67,019 | pg | 2007-10-12T20:41:27 | The Tie is Back | http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/11/fashion/11CODES.html?ei=5070&em=&en=0866acc43f0e321e&ex=1192334400&pagewanted=all | 41 | 37 | [
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67,020 | gsiener | 2007-10-12T20:43:52 | Ask News YC: What's the cheapest/quickest/easiest way to set up an ecommerce store? | I'm sure a lot of you have done the research - what's it like to sell something online, and what are the pitfalls? | 3 | 3 | [
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67,021 | soapdev | 2007-10-12T20:45:16 | Yossi: Young Entrepreneurs in the Arena | http://www.sproutly.com/2007/10/12/yossi-young-entrepreneurs-and-the-arena/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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67,050 | moses1400 | 2007-10-12T22:15:35 | Vimeo updates their video player - pretty sweet updates - better size and bit quality | http://www.centernetworks.com/vimeo-updates-video-player | 4 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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67,054 | jsyedidia | 2007-10-12T22:31:00 | On Blogs and Books | null | http://nerdwisdom.com/2007/10/12/on-blogs-and-books/ | 3 | 0 | null | null | null | no_error | On Blogs and Books | 2007-10-12T22:25:27+00:00 | null |
Jeff Atwood has a great blog, called “Coding Horror,” about software development. He’s been blogging continuously and very actively since 2004, which I find impressive; check out his archives.
One of his most recent posts is about the book that he’s just completed, on ASP.NET. I can’t say that I’m interested in the subject of his book, but I was interested in what he had to say about writing blogs versus writing books. Basically, he comes down heavily in favor of writing blogs:
“As I see it, for the kind of technical content we’re talking about, the online world of bits completely trumps the offline world of atoms:
it’s forever searchable
you, not your publisher, will own it
it’s instantly available to anyone, anywhere in the world
it can be cut and pasted; it can be downloaded; it can even be interactive
it can potentially generate ad revenue for you in perpetuity
And here’s the best part: you can always opt to create a print version of your online content, and instantly get the best of both worlds. But it only makes sense in that order. Writing a book may seem like a worthy goal, but your time will be better spent channeling the massive effort of a book into creating content online.”
He also points out that writing books is a lot harder than writing blogs:
“Writing a book is hard work. For me, writing blog entries feels completely organic, like a natural byproduct of what I already do. It’s not effortless by any means, but it’s enjoyable. I can put a little effort in, and get immediate results out after I publish the entry. The book writing process is far more restrictive. Instead of researching and writing about whatever you find interesting at any given time, you’re artificially limited to a series of chapters that fit the theme of the book. You slave away for your publisher, writing for weeks on end, and you’ll have nothing to show for it until the book appears (optimistically) six months down the road. Writing a book felt a lot like old fashioned hard work– of the indentured servitude kind.”
Charles Petzold, an experienced author of programming texts, chimes in here with more details on the declining economics of technical book-writing. Apparently a lot fewer people are buying programming books nowadays, so the financial situation for the authors of these books is getting worse. So Petzold agrees that it makes a lot more sense to write in blog format, but notes that blogs don’t usually pay very well.
Let me just give a different perspective, from someone who is more interested in academic writing than technical writing. I think that most academics don’t write books in order to make money, and that’s certainly true of the journal articles that are written. So for academics, moving from books to blogs has more of the upside and less of the downside than for other authors.
I know that I personally find writing a blog a lot more appealing than writing a book. As Atwood points out, you can write about whatever happens to appeal to you on the day you’re writing; and you get much faster feedback. Sure it’s some work, but all in all, it’s great!
Petzold has another criticism of blogs:
On the Internet, everything is in tiny pieces. The typical online article or blog entry is 500, 1000, maybe 1500 words long. Sometimes somebody will write an extended “tutorial” on a topic, possibly 3,000 words in length, maybe even 5,000.
It’s easy to convince oneself that these bite-sized chunks of prose represent the optimum level of information granularity. It is part of the utopian vision of the web that this plethora of loosely-linked pages synergistically becomes all the information we need.
This illusion is affecting the way we learn, and I fear that we’re not getting the broader, more comprehensive overview that only a book can provide. A good author will encounter an unwieldy jungle of information and cut a coherent path through it, primarily by imposing a kind of narrative over the material. This is certainly true of works of history, biography, science, mathematics, philosophy, and so forth, and it is true of programming tutorials as well.
Sometimes you see somebody attempting to construct a tutorial narrative by providing a series a successive links to different web pages, but it never really works well because it lacks an author who has spent many months (or a year or more) primarily structuring the material into a narrative form.
For example, suppose you wanted to learn about the American Civil War. You certainly have plenty of online access to Wikipedia articles, blog entries, even scholarly articles. But I suggest that assembling all the pieces into a coherent whole is something best handled by a trained professional, and that’s why reading a book such as James McPherson’s Battle Cry of Freedom will give you a much better grasp of the American Civil War than hundreds of disparate articles.
If I sound elitist, it’s only because the time and difficulty required for wrapping a complex topic into a coherent narrative is often underestimated by those who have never done it. A book is not 150 successive blog entries, just like a novel isn’t 150 character sketches, descriptions, and scraps of dialog.”
As somebody who writes blog posts that typically come in at 500-1500 words, but loves to read books, I want to respond to that.
The web lets us write material in whatever form we want. I’m comfortable with the 500-1500 word post. Other people with popular blogs write 2-sentence posts linking to an article. Paul Graham writes long essays. David MacKay puts drafts of his books online.
The fact is, that you can write about whatever you want, whenever you want, in whatever form you want. The most important point is that you don’t need permission to publish anymore. You don’t need a publisher; you are the publisher.
Which brings me to a related point. I find a lot of the current scientific publication process completely bizarre. Scientists write the articles, type-set the articles, review the articles, edit the articles, and then find that their own articles are not freely available online? And we write articles that are hard to understand because of space limitations? Online there are no space limitations! The entire system is lumbering on mostly as if we still were living in the early 20th century, when only a few specialized groups of people had the capability to publish, and delivering journal articles to people was necessarily expensive.
Most of the current system’s remaining justification, compared to a free system where everybody simply published their work online, and that was the end of it, is for credentialing articles by peer review and credentialing people by the number of peer-reviewed articles they’ve written. Look, I know peer review is important, but given the huge time sink of the current system, and the morale problems that it contributes to, I think that we should take a closer look at the costs and benefits, and maybe be more open to people who simply publish their work online (see, for example, Perelman’s papers proving the Poincare conjecture, which were never published in a peer-reviewed journal).
So if you feel the urge, publish yourself online in whatever format suits you. Just try to make the content worthwhile for somebody else in the world, and don’t worry about the rest. [End of rant.]
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67,092 | bootload | 2007-10-13T00:26:00 | Why Nokia Won't Beat Apple's iPhone | http://www.alleyinsider.com/2007/10/why-nokia-cant-.html | 4 | 4 | [
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67,096 | nickb | 2007-10-13T00:48:14 | Does Google's Equality Drive Extend To Old People? Leaving at 7pm is too early! | null | http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/11/does-googles-equality-drive-extend-to-old-people/ | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | cut_off | Does Google's Equality Drive Extend To Old People? | TechCrunch | 2007-10-12T05:20:32+00:00 | Contributor |
Google posted earlier today on its efforts towards building a workplace that provides equal treatment to all staff. Google noted that it has ranked highly on the U.S. Human Rights Campaign Corporate Equality Index during a “time of rapid growth for our population of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender employees (whose group name is, naturally, Gayglers) around the world.”
Google’s inclusive work environment for GLBT employees should be commended, but does equality in Google extend to old people? Brian Reid doesn’t think so.
Reid is a former Google Director of Operations and Engineering and in now entering his third year of battling Google for unfair dismissal. Reid claims that despite receiving positive work reviews he was dismissed by Google after being told he was “slow”, “fuzzy”, “lethargic”, and did not “display a sense of urgency” and was told by a manager that his ideas were “obsolete” and “too old to matter”. Reid also noted in evidence that some of his colleagues referred to him as an “old man”, an “old guy” and an “old fuddy-duddy”.
It would appear that Reid did act in a fashion that was different to the general working ethos of Googlers. By his own admission Reid would leave work at 7pm and noted that he was regularly asked why he wasn’t remaining at work when Google provided dinner for its employees. An issue with diabetes also meant that Reid was required to eat at regular intervals, even when this meant interrupting meetings.
Google has denied the allegations, saying that Reid was let go after the project he was working on finished. An Appeals court has allowed the case to proceed with a trial date to be advised.
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67,099 | bootload | 2007-10-13T01:04:10 | Why scientists and other groups fall prey to the fads called "informational cascades" | http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/09/how-the-low-fat-low-fact-cascade-just-keeps-rolling-along/ | 4 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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67,122 | david | 2007-10-13T02:31:39 | Why Businesses would be Evil | null | http://www.infinitebanking.org/blog/?p=61 | 1 | 1 | [
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67,187 | endlessvoid94 | 2007-10-13T04:19:48 | Advice for hosting services | I'm interested in continuing a small web startup, and my server now only supports PHP. Does anyone have recommendations on good hosting companies that offer good packages with lots of feature support that doesn't cost <i>too</i> much? | null | 6 | 17 | [
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67,206 | rainsill | 2007-10-13T06:33:50 | 10 Things on my Google Wish List | Ten things I'd change to make Google products better. | http://fishtrain.com/2007/10/12/10-things-on-my-google-wish-list/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
67,208 | edawerd | 2007-10-13T06:49:44 | You know you're obsessed with getting into YC when... | You know you're obsessed with getting into YC when...<p>10) You custom tailored your application demo with Paul Graham in mind. When discussing your demo with your cofounder, you've started your sentences with "When Paul Graham visits the site..."<p>9) You've spent many late night arguing with your cofounder about the exact wording of each answer to the application questions. You copied and pasted into MS Word so that you can do a word count on your answers. <p>8) You had a mini panic attack when you hit the "save" button on your application and got presented with an expired link message. Then you were really relieved when you hit the back button and realized that because you use Firefox, the form data is still there. <p>7) You've marked November 3 on your calendar<p>6) You scrutinize every word that Paul Graham writes on Hacker News<p>5) You click on "pg" and click on "submissions" to read all the submissions that Paul Graham has made....and then you click on "comments" to read all the comments that he made and then the original submissions to those comments. <p>4) You are very careful about the comments that you post on Hacker News because you're afraid that Paul Graham will think you're stupid and that it will be the reason for you not getting accepted into YC. <p>3) You compulsively check your demo because you're paranoid that your server will crash right when Paul Graham visits your site.<p>2) You've searched your email inbox for "Paul Graham" just in case your accidentally overlooked an email from him<p>1) You check your server logs on a daily basis to look for a non-familiar IP Address. When you find one, you do an IP Lookup to see if it originated from Boston. Then you get disappointed when you realize it's some random crawler probing your site, or worse yet, you realize it was you visiting your own site. <p>I decided to write this because I was driving home tonight and starting thinking about all the crazy things that I've done with my coworker over the last 4 weeks trying to get an interview with YCombinator. It culminated today when, during work, my cofounder and I realized that our demo was offline because his cable modem had died. Fearing that PG would visit our non-functioning demo today, we skipped lunch and quickly drove to his home and moved his Mac Mini server to my girlfriend's dorm room at Stanford, whom I had called 30 minutes earlier to beg to use her internet connection until October 18th. We picked up some fast food on the way home and made it back just in time for my 1:00pm meeting. What a crazy day! <p>Feel free to submit your own stories. Good luck to everyone!
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67,295 | nickb | 2007-10-13T14:46:14 | The Clock is Ticking for Joost | null | http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/12/the-clock-is-ticking-for-joost/ | 7 | 0 | null | null | null | no_error | The Clock is Ticking for Joost | TechCrunch | 2007-10-12T14:57:04+00:00 | Erick Schonfeld |
There’s a time bomb out there with Joost’s name on it. Full-screen, broadcast-quality video streams—the main selling point of Joost’s peer-to-peer Internet TV client software—is quickly coming to the Web. Brightcove will soon be offering such streams to its video publishers using BitTorrent DNA. But the real threat to Joost will be coming from Adobe and its ubiquitous Flash player.
Sometime in the next few months, Adobe is expected to incorporate the H.264 codec in all Flash players with the general release of Flash Player 9. You can already download a beta version from Adobe Labs. The H.264 codec is part of MPEG-4 and is the codec that Apple uses to compress all of the video downloads on iTunes. Once H.264 is part of Flash, the quality of streaming video on the Web will roughly double at current bandwidth speeds. That means YouTube videos will look twice as good—and those will likely remain on the low end in quality.
Every video site on the Web (and quite a few that are still in stealth) is just waiting for Flash Player 9 to be distributed widely and become the new standard. That will allow them to launch their own full-screen Internet TV services with video streams that are just as good or better than Joost’s, and that will require nothing more than a regular browser to watch.
Joost’s greatest asset right now is not its peer-to-peer technology. It’s the momentum it’s gained so far by being an early mover. When Joost finally came out of its private beta on October 1, it had already signed up one million beta users and seeded its network with 15,000 shows. But the vast majority of that video is not exclusive to Joost. All the Internet TV services are lining up the same content. And better-quality video is not going to remain a differentiator for long.
As compression technologies get better, video sites will be able to dial up the quality of the video streams. Joost’s P2P approach is not a benefit to the consumer as much as it is a benefit to Joost (because it offloads the bandwidth costs of the most popular video streams to the users themselves). But streaming video on the Web is about to get a whole lot cheaper—and as Web video advertising takes off, a whole lot more lucrative. Some people argue that once the economics kick in, centralized Web streaming will offer a better, more consistent viewing experience than P2P streaming. That’s why H.264 is so important. It will change the economics of streaming.
Joost’s only remaining competitive barrier will be its network of viewers and their interactions among each other, along with the third-party apps built around it. If viewers feel that the experience of watching videos on Joost is more social or pleasurable than watching streams by themselves on the Web, maybe they’ll stick around. But social features are not exclusive to Joost, and neither are its platform ambitions. The slam-dunk days for Joost will soon be over.
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Erick has been discovering and working with startups his entire professional career as a technology journalist, startup event producer, and founder. Erick is President & Founding Partner at Traction Technology Partners. He is also a co-founder of TouchCast, the leading interactive video platform, and a partner at bMuse, a startup studio in New York City. He is the former Executive Producer of the DEMO conferences and former Editor-in-Chief of TechCrunch (where he helped conceive, lead and select startups for the Disrupt conferences, among other duties). Prior to TechCrunch, which he joined as Co-Editor in 2007, Erick was Editor-at-Large for Business 2.0 magazine, and a senior writer at Fortune magazine covering technology.
At TechCrunch, he oversaw the editorial content of the site, helped to program the Disrupt conferences and CrunchUps, produced TCTV shows, and wrote daily for the blog. He joined TechCrunch as Co-Editor in 2007, and helped take it from a popular blog to a thriving media property. After founder Michael Arrington left in 2011, Schonfeld became Editor in Chief.
Prior to TechCrunch, he was Editor-at-Large for Business 2.0 magazine, where he wrote feature stories and ran their main blog, The Next Net. He also launched the online video series “The Disruptors” with CNN/Money and hosted regular panels and conferences of industry luminaries. Schonfeld started his career at Fortune magazine in 1993, where he was recognized with numerous journalism awards.
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