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There's also Cloudant Sync based on CouchDB, which is also open-source and for both iOS and Android. https://cloudant.com/blog/introducing-cloudant-sync/

But how do we choose between CouchBase and CouchDB sync?

50 x 50GB blu-ray discs, for over 2TB of storage, only costs $126 at Amazon.

A 2TB portable USB drive costs $100.

But no, let's just upload everything to Google Drive.

PA Consulting are idiots and everybody who gave them this contract should be fired.

Saying "I didn't know" is no excuse as this is not the first time PA Consulting have lost data!

"The Home Secretary announced on 10 September that the government has terminated its contract with PA Consulting, following the recent high profile data loss

On 19 August PA Consulting formally notified the Home Office of the loss of a data stick containing sensitive information relating to the JTrack system which PA manage under contract to the Home Office

The data on JTrack relates to prisoners and other offenders in England and Wales."

http://www.scl.org/site.aspx?i=ne9297

It's a fake and yet another black eye for CNN - the photo is from a movie!

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/02/18/theres-something-...

But wait, there's even more from CNN, like the photo of a 4 year old walking alone across the desert to escape the civil war, which wasn't.

http://www.cbc.ca/newsblogs/yourcommunity/2014/02/photo-of-s...

Can we use the word "propaganda" yet?

I'm sure that's what Zynga employees thought too. Sure, accept less than your market rate, but there are lots of trapdoors before the cash ends up in your bank account.

Yeah yeah yeah. Heard this one before.

Acquired company says it's business as usual, nothing will change, and then 6 months later things slowly begin to change and then after the vesting period of the acquisition finishes, and the newly minted sail off into the sunset, it all goes to hell.

The CEO just had a higher price than most other people.

To get $16bn cash from Facebook is hilarious.

Next time a start-up says they won't pay you market rate because of x, y, and z just walk away and laugh. For the sake of a few thousand dollars in wages, you could make them billions.

Don't work for cheap bastards. Funny how engineers are supposed to sacrifice yet we never see a lawyer or accountant charge below market rates, and their work can save businesses millions as well as jail-time.

This article offers an interesting look at Russia-US relations:

"Diagnosing Sochi Media Coverage: Virulent Russophobia...

The water, the toilets, the hotels – nothing pleases our pampered media divas, whose hatred of all things Russian oozes from between the lines of their "reporting" like pus from an old wound."

All the antipathy we saw aimed at Russia during the cold war years is now being revomited up by the political class, albeit in a new flavor: instead of genuine martyrs like Andrei Sakharov and Alexandr Solzhenitsyn being lionized, we see the professional provocateurs of "Pussy Riot" elevated by Western media to the status of "dissident" stars.

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2014/02/09/diagnosing-soc...

Thanks...

How do I decide between CouchDB and CouchBase?

What are the major technical differences?

Is there a philosophical difference?

CouchDB, CouchBase, TouchDB, PouchDB...

How is anyone supposed to figure out who/what to use for the long-term? CouchDB? CouchBase?

From the Github page:

"CDTDatastore is available through CocoaPods, to install it add the following line to your Podfile:

Why CocoaPods? What is wrong with a static library? Or simply adding the relevant class files to a project?

I don't want to have Ruby infrastructure just to add a bunch of files to a project! Why are Ruby folk obsessed with doing things their 'Gems' way? They bring the same mentality to Go(lang). I always hear (ex)-Ruby folk asking questions at meetups about packaging and versioning...

Don't forget TOM.COM.

His nickname in Hong Kong is "Superman" so everybody trusted him. During the first dot.com he jumped on board the IPO wagon resulting in mom and pop investors getting absolutely fleeced. I think after that episode people began to see him truly for what he is: just another rich guy playing the politicians to extend his empire, built mostly on property.

Another tidbit. His younger son, Richard Lee, promoted himself as a tech guru having graduated from Stanford studying computer science (it said so on the IPO prospectus). Journalists later discover that in fact he had attended but dropped out of Stanford, and instead went to Canada to work at his dad's financial firm, before returning to Hong Kong to help run the family business.

It's mostly faux outrage.

There are many fields and industries where women outnumber men, yet not a peep from the usual suspects.

Can you link to some of these studies you mention? Would love to read them. Thanks.

Famous last words :-)

One would hope they've located some servers there.

Otherwise they're just reselling servers, which makes their claim to "open a new datacenter" even more of a farce!

I'll respectfully disagree. They are implying creation and ownership of an entire facility. They want to market themselves as being bigger and stronger than they actually are.

I guess hustling and bending the truth is rule 101 in marketing for start-ups these days, but it doesn't have to be like that.

When Blue Bottle open a new coffee shop, that's what they call it, an opening. If other coffee shops stock their coffee, Blue Bottle don't claim to have opened a new location, they simply say their coffee is available or served there.

Do you really need to be rich to do the things that interest you?

If not, and you're not in financial hardship, start doing those things you love now.

Enjoy your life before responsibilities and old age catch upto you.

Money corrupts.

It's amazing how things have changed in 10 years.

CPAN.

Perl.

A real community of programmers, system admins, enthusiasts.

Ok, this is nonsense!

DigitalOcean did not "open" a data center in Singapore. All they have done is rented some racks / colo space from Equinix in an existing facility.

http://www.equinix.com/locations/singapore-colocation/singap...

They're just another customer - to spin and imply they have built or opened a brand new data center is ridiculous.

"Our decision to open a new datacenter" is really "We've located servers in Singapore". What's wrong with telling the truth?

Just more evidence that DigitalOcean is all PR and hot air after their pot-shots at Linode and brushing off security issues as "features".

I upvoted the earlier comment because something interesting is worth repeating. I wasn't aware of the issue or your explanation, so good thing he/she posted in the first place.

It's sickening to see all these cash rich tech companies being worshipped, yet they don't pay their employees what they're worth, for generating all that value.

http://pando.com/2014/01/23/the-techtopus-how-silicon-valley...

The first Trillion dollar company is/was PetroChina. At least for a few days.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aA1jw...

> Stock based compensation still costs investors money.

Hi, could you expand upon this, perhaps with an example? Thanks.

Marissa Mayer hired a guy, paid him millions, then fired him because he was crap. What makes you think Susan is any different? Right time, right place, right connections, you get the job.

We'll never know if somebody else could have been as successful or not at selling ads at Google, but guess what, given that Google has been the #1 search engine for so many years, it's kind of hard to screw up, right?

At the end of the day, I don't even know why I'm commenting on this thread, because I don't actually give a damn who's running YouTube. All I care about is that the site is literally going down the tubes because of a poor user experience, and in an attempt to monetize, it's only going to get worse.

Hooray, once again it's the generic boilerplate executive or product manager who gets the big bucks, while the PROGRAMMERS are stuck toiling away.

Thank god for people like John Carmack and Linus Torvalds, great programmers who are recognised as leaders and given the respect that this profession so badly needs.

Maybe the moderators will ban this post manually?

At some point there will a rather innocuous post which will be blocked, and it will be the straw that breaks the camel's back.

I think it's coming. I think people are sick of the nannying and censorship and ready to move on from HN.

I feel PG is wrong to kill the Doctor's valid question.

It's obvious that HN is not a news site, but a discussion forum based upon censored news. If this complaint had been about a non-YC funded company, the moderators would have left the story up. Heck, every other story on HN is usually about somebody complaining about a company's product or conduct.

Why is YC afraid of open discussion? So what if one company out of the portfolio is having problems? Nobody expects the investments to be perfect, yet killing the conversation makes it look far worse, as though there is something to hide.

End of the day, profit trumps transparency. Remember that the next time people get on the soap box and talk about internet freedom blah blah blah.

SourceTree seems to get slower and slowerespecially if you have submodules and lots of branches. Not sure why. Any good alternatives out there?

I use both. I dont think Git 'won' but it is more popular. I suspect many git users dont even know why they use git except because they were told to, they probably never tried hg or know anything about darcs, bitkeeper, etc.