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Which is a bit like patenting the use of a shovel for digging.

Give everyone a shovel. Half the people can dig the hole, the other half will fill it in again!

T off a proverbial shovel to just sh! t.

Between his Twitter and this "summary", I would say the shovel is still in his hands. I wonder if he paused for breath or realized how big the hole was.

But DO is unmanaged and acquires clients by the shovel. Something has to give.

Io, trello, and github, it seems there's more shovel-selling going on than actual gold-digging.

Nothing will make me flee a place faster than listening to someone slurp their food as they shovel it into their gaping maw.

The feed is so pixelated, what if it's a shovel, and not a weapon? I felt this confusion constantly, as did my fellow UAV analysts.

The government folks who shovel out the money are easily impressed by this stuff. Nothing really advances but it is impressive as hell.

I think there's a nuance to "selling shovels during a goldrush" suggesting that shovel-sellers exploit the naive 49ers, the majority of whom will end up with no gold. That really isn't the point of the exercise.

No more thought is put into the migrant workers than you would an extra shovel, concrete or tile - they are a resource to expend during construction. The locals don't see them as human, just building material.

At some level maybe it is a bit like selling shovels during a gold rush. Find what most start-ups need and monetize that. The gold prospector has a high chance of going home empty-handed, but he will surely need a shovel to even start digging.

If all else fails, shovel through the memory dump looking for repeated patterns. Testing: try to reproduce the problem; the first iteration may look something like "it runs out of memory after 36 hours".

Note: this is a submission by a single-purpose account that does nothing but shovel NetworkWorld stories onto HN so we can argue about them and drive traffic to NetworkWorld. NetworkWorld, a trade press rag, is virtually never a good source.

So you shovel water with your arms to push yourself farther down, pulling them down just enough that their heads go underwater, too, and they'll release you quickly. They are struggling desperately to keep their heads above water and won't hang on to something that's pulling them under.

If pg is correct and hardware startups are making a renaissance then we can expect to see startups soon that sell shovels for hardware startups. For web startups we see shovel-style products that help with customer support, A/B testing, virtualized servers and so on.

Two small shovels aren't the same as one big shovel, but two small bags of dirt are basically the same as one big bag of dirt. If you're going to continue with the memory analogy, this would be like combining the graphics memory and general purpose RAM into a single figure.

Thankfully I think the country is starting to come around to the notion that no amount of sodium reduction, fat-reduction, or carb-reduction will work if you continue to shovel it into your mouth by the gobful. It's become vogue to blame every ill of society on industrialization, when instead the answer seems to be simpler and more obvious.

Also, learn to change your oil and maybe your spark plugs; learn to cook; learn to replace buttons on your shirts; learn to fix your leaky sink and plunge your toilet; learn to plant flowers and tomatoes; milk a cow; shovel some dirt; experience driving a tractor, both the kind in a field and the kind that pull tons of cargo down the expressway ... Get out of your comfort zone, live for a minute in someone else's shoes and maybe, just maybe, you'll learn to respect the work that other people do and be willing to pay them for it - they deserve to be paid for their Work.

A bulldozer operator working an 8 hour day to move a few tons of dirt is more productive than a worker who needs many 12 hour work days to move the same amount of dirt with a shovel and wheelbarrow. A trader at a bank who moves millions of shares with a phone call and a few mouse clicks is more productive than the bulldozer operator. Does this mean the banker works hardest and the guy with the shovel the least hard? A high productivity per hour in a country means fewer ditches are dug using shovels, and more credit default swaps are sold. It doesn't mean people are working harder. It also doesn't necessarily mean the shovel digging country is organizing its economy less efficiently. Where the cost of labor is a few dollar per day, investing in a bulldozer might never pay off. Hiring 100 guys with shovels and wheelbarrows could be more efficient than hiring one guy with a bulldozer.