This amuses me. In my experience I haven't seen any porn site player being faster or better than youtube; or may be I have too little experience to make a judgment on this. I find the fast-forwarding on youtube most efficient when compared to other video playing sites on web. The switching between full screen and half screen acts cranky at times, but other than that youtube videos run just fine. Also, many players don't even allow fast forwarding.
Hm, but wouldn't that be specific to the current happenings rather than the basics, even if you go for an years subscription. It will definitely give a lot of insights. I don't follow 'The Economist', so you can correct me.
Not at this point. I am a developer and I run a consultancy with one more guy, so I am generally short of hours. But I will see how much I can grasp on my own and then may be consider something.
When you are using a ruby or python based web framework, each request is a blocking request i.e. after each request you wait for the response before proceeding further e.g. urllib.urlopen(), which as a result causes the no of requests handled/second to go down. Using eventmachine or gevent respectively for ruby or python is one way to overcome this.
In node.js there is no such concept of blocking requests and everything is processed in a single thread. But you can always fork multiple processes using its cluster module http://nodejs.org/docs/latest/api/cluster.html
edit: Oh, I was not trying not advocate anything. nodejs is indeed just a choice, if I didn't make myself very clear when I said "My understanding is:"
Yes, thats pretty valid. But I have seen people trying to promote their product on support forums facing a huge backlash. Although I can assume that if my product really has something valuable to offer, trying it won't be worthless.
What you are saying is right indeed, but most of the problems that you talked about are people problem rather than having to do something with the tag of "labs". Otherwise how different is the failure of two consecutive products by the same team under the same "labs" banner from the failure inside two entirely different banner!
I recently saw that android phones have shortcuts for important/frequently-used settings e.g. wifi, hotspot. at the top of notification screen, so you can just drag the screen down and quickly make the changes. In iPhone if you have to switch on or off your cellular data, you have to go through 3-4 screens.
edit: ok, it has limited but important set of shortcuts which does not include cellular data
Read through quickly at first and got mislead by 'target' assuming that anything passed as a target will start spinning and tried to spin an image :), which of course is not the case. Nice effort though.
Just for your first line, feeling pressed is different from feeling depressed, and I think that the article is referring to "feeling depressed". It is more or less trying to convey the same message as yours which conveys doing something instead of sitting idle. It's just that you want to get things done in a hurry. See the analogies to believe - Gordon Gekko, Bill Gates.
The read is indeed true but hasn't it taken the nose and beans analogy a little too far, beyond reader's interest? It could have been a better read if there was a little diversion from nose and beans to some actual scenarios.
This almost sounds like a comparison between growth of China and India, where China just gets the things done when it needs to while India lags behind trying to gather people's consensus; and I believe that neither of them are correct. Reasons are pretty simple. If you are a bully, things are bound to fall apart sooner or later while if you are a total pushover, you don't even own what you are doing. I have seen both the approaches working and then failing, at work. As a boss, being a bully can only work when you are sure that you have hired the last pieces of talent who did not have any other option. Well, if that is the case then you better be a bully. Otherwise if you have a got an extremely talented programmer whom you want to run on your terms, then it ain't gonna happen. Pushover - this can only work when the boss has got another talented boss in disguise amongst his own workers who actually works and makes the decisions on behalf of him. It happens; but if everyone is unsure and starts making his own decision then failure is inevitable. In fact, contrary to the article, push over boss has a better chance of sharp success in case he finds a brilliant worker who does not hesitate in taking the lead. Of-course that is not going to work for ever, but might work long enough.
Edit: In fact, as I think about it more, a pushover/fair boss does not have a better but a far better chances of succeeding.
1. A pushover boss earns respect because he listens to everyone - Win
2. The probability of finding an extremely talented worker is equal for both kind of bosses - Win
3. The chance of retaining a talent is higher just because he does not interfere much in the work - Win
4. The chance of succeeding the project is higher because he lets other (might be better) people in team make/alter the decision - Win