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Yes, however at the implementation level, message based concurrency is shared memory concurrency (as I understand anyway.) Callbacks seem to me an entirely a different abstraction.

" Basically there are two models of concurrency:

    Shared state concurrency
    Message passing concurrency

"

Wouldn't the node.js style callbacks be a third type of concurrency? It's similar to message passing, but quite different from the user's perspective.

The most important insight: unless you are targeting Asia (namely China and Korea,) you can pretty much dump IE6 support as Facebook and Google have done. The US number is under 3%. I'd like to see a breakdown of that 3%, but I'd guess it's mostly public schools and stodgy companies.

Wow - 1.7M lines of Erlang, the largest functional program ever written, with 9 nines (99.9999999%) reliability.

So incredible. I would love to learn to do this myself - seeing the world with sounds must be so different. If I were a billionaire I'd pay invest that $15M and hope I could learn.

Finally... I heard they were working on this 6 months ago. I don't like and won't use Get Satisfaction (confusing, terribly designed widget, and extortionate business model) and have been waiting for a good solution. I haven't looked at this yet but have high hopes.

Agreed. I am also an east coaster and I find Dave's style to be a brilliant balance of humor and content. He occassionally rubs me the wrong way, but I'm a big boy. I can take it.

I have a strong belief that any time you are offended, you should look within, not attack the offender.

I think it's a bit arbitrary and ridiculous that Dan is getting the kind of attention he is for these projects given all the other products out there - but that's the way mob mentality and yellow journalism a la Tech Crunch work, so good for him for exploiting that.

Most entrepreneurs would kill for this kind of attention to their weekend projects. Now everything he does is inherently newsworthy because he's "the creator of Breakup Notifier."

The lesson here is - do something controversial and make a name for yourself. Notoriety is far better than obscurity for an entrepreneur.

Or $50-100 change fees.

Yes, regulation and anti-monopoly laws are essential to capitalism. However being in favor of sensible regulation is utterly different from advocating the abolition of capitalism.

I think that might be an ambitious guess regarding Riseup's intentions - they don't make any such distinction. They demonstrate a typical uninformed, knee-jerk, radical anarchist philosophy.

For reference, a definition of capitalism:

"An economic system in which investment in and ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange of wealth is made and maintained chiefly by private individuals or corporations, especially as contrasted to cooperatively or state-owned means of wealth."

I don't agree that the US standard of living is decreasing "because those who have capital are leveraging their capital against those without." In fact, the US has an extraordinary high standard of living, far better than 20 years ago (just look at a grocery store, your average automobile or home, or what people do on vacation.) If it is plateauing or declining the last few years, it is for other reasons, including:

- An unrealistic increase over the last 10 years built on credit. It will take a few years before our economy catches up with that. - A wasteful and destructive government education system rotting for lack a free enterprise and undermining our economy as a whole. - Wasteful government spending and borrowing - trillions of dollars spent on corruption and war.

Nobody is using capital "against" anyone - I'm not even sure precisely whbat it means, yet I'm quite sure it's false.

Yes, that's the great thing about a market.... Oh wait. Markets must be destroyed. Argh, inconsistency hurts my brain.

At it's core, capitalism is an incentive system to innovate and distribute innovation. Human ingenuity is not sufficient in-and-of itself. Without being rewarded for giving your innovations to others, inventions are less likely to arise or be widely adopted.

That's corruption, not capitalism. And corruption is far worse in non-capitalist states, although the spoils are much smaller in magnitude. And I'm not opposed to regulation or in favor of pure laissez faire markets.

I would add an important point though. In China, 300 million people have been lifted out of poverty in 30 years, a modern miracle, simply by introducing well regulated capitalism to the economy. This despite the fact that billions are siphoned off through corruption and "crony capitalism." Many will look at this and rightly point out how unfair and unjust this is, however most Chinese would rather have a few, even many, rich corrupt official than the old state run distribution system, because now is overwhelmingly better for most Chinese than then. The overall effect is enormously positive, and nitpicking corruption that falls through the cracks is misguided. Corruption unjustly gives some more wealth than they deserve in every country - capitalism just means the pie is bigger.

As much as I admire the effort to provide tools to oppressed people, I would strongly oppose this group. Capitalism and market economics are the single greatest tool for raising living standards, liberating people from oppression, and unleashing human creativity for the common good. Destruction of capitalism would bring the worst forms of oppression, from ignorance, to disease, to fascism.

Apple makes a lot of money on each device. Their margins are consistent with the rest of their product line.

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9150045/Apple_makes_2...

I understand the email overload - if I don't respond to something the same hour, it often takes months.

Still - I view twitter posts as too public for anything remotely sensitive, and DMs as similarly interruptive as SMS - so I rarely DM people I don't know very well. I'm probably wrong to view it this way, and perhaps I should re-evaluate.

Well we ate late night fish balls in Beijing together, so I should know you better!

Actually I'd love to know more about how twitter replaces much of email for you - I don't like having so much of my communication public, and I have a hard time reaching out to someone so publicly. Twitter has never felt natural to me.

It's written as if it were to a drinking buddy who won't stop chasing his ex-girlfriend. It's dramatic parody, not dumbed down.

Could this also be related to how data is reported to Quantcast? Many of what used to be page loads are now AJAX requests - and the page loads on Quantcast may have recovered after they added API calls on notify Quantcast.

I'm going to have to explain to my children what a bookstore was. Sad, because I'm not sure anything can replicate that feeling of being surrounded by knowledge and stories or browsing aisles of obscure magazines. Neither I suppose could anything replicate riding a horse down Market Street or jumping on a ship departing from from Pacific Street.

Thanks.

No - they don't partner with anyone when it comes to their content.

I never understood the point of enforcing the spec for user input. Even if done properly it may reject some working, but invalid email addresses. And it does nothing to increase your chances of getting a good email address. Your user is either willing to give you their real address or not. If they are willing, validating fully does not protect against typos and if they are not you will get a well formattd fake address - validating to spec serves no purpose and possibly harms. Just don't do it.

Check for an @ sign and possibly a top level domain name (at leasr one dot) and be done with it.

> Academia couldn't care less about the knowledge available to the average internet user.

Except for just about every elite university, most of which make their courses available online for free.

I agree. This is a dangerous sort of argument, to believe something - particularly something so core to human behavior - simply because it is convenient and satisfying.

In fact, this type of justification is at the root of many of the terrible things that have happened in the world - from slavery to genocide.

Are you a terrible person? Maybe not, but only because it doesn't feel right.

Apple seems to be on the case as well:

http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2011/02/apple-ta...

For handwriting - I'd agree. The world is in need of a good digital sketchpad though.

This should be a nice alternative to pop journalism about the incestuous topics (Foursquare's gonna make it, AT&T sucks, Apple is awesome but we still like to call their shit, Foursquare is still awesome, MG Siegler cut himself on the edge of his Macbook Air...)

It's amazing how much crap those guys produce and how little they do stir up interesting startups. Arrington's "no embargo" policy - supposedly principled - is at odds with their extortionate methods of promising coverage in exchange for perks for their readers and exclusives.

This is disappointing. I can't see them pushing people toward a paid service without crippling OKCupid's features and culture. OKC was built around optimizing for fun and matchmaking - match.com was built around maximizing revenue and disappointment. And I'll miss the irreverent analysis in the blog.

$50M also seems like a low exit for one of the most successful, and probably the most sophisticated, dating site on the internet.

Definitely makes me wonder if the dating space has much money left in it.

Some notes have automatic conversion at a given valuation (usually the 'floor', which in this case does not exist.) Others have no such clause, presumably under the incorrect assumption that a "liquidity event" will always happen if there is a success. I've dealt with both types of notes before and always insisted on adding an automatic conversion clause.