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Since you're dealing in absolutes, let me return the favor; you're being a little silly.

Yes, Linode beats AWS when it comes to price. On the other hand, Linode's offer is incredibly basic and simplistic. AWS offers service after service that Linode simply doesn't and realistically cannot.

Sure, you can emulate a subset of these services (and a subset of their features) using open-source software but at what price ? That's the major flaw in your reasoning. Getting to the point where your installations are as stable and reliable as AWS', given a large stress on the system, will cost you a lot of money and time. Directly comparing the cost of hardware access is ignoring other costs and headaches that are not very easy to estimate.

There's a market for a service like Linode and there's a market for a service like AWS. You've simply never worked on a project/system that works better on AWS than on Linode. I know I couldn't run the systems that I currently operate on Linode without multiplying the workload that is needed to maintain them.

Linode and AWS are competitors but there's space in the market for both; they simply fill different niches. Establishing one as absolutely superior to the other is silly and closed-minded. A lot of people chose AWS; go and ask them why (feel free to reach out to me at nick at nasx dot io - I'll be more than happy to talk to you).
Rewriting a side project app with the latest boilerplate generator and toolkit, IMHO, is an obsession that is just a great way to avoid doing work.

There comes a point in a side project where it gets too big for the usual sole developer to deal with and they think, "If I just upgrade to the next magic stack I'll be able to manage this complexity."

What's usually happened is that the QA load for adding new features has gotten too high and the usually sole developer can't add new features to anything without breaking stuff and at least going through a long test cycle. With a larger team, QA can help patch up the holes. However, if a project has solid TDD, this doesn't become a problem because, if the tests all pass, everything works.

Just my two cents, but that was my experience before I got really into TDD.
Here it is:

https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/7.6.2/docs/html/users_gui...

The next page references dllthomas's command. Here's the language it outputs:

https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Commentary/Compiler/Co...

So, the trick to answer our question is if any knowledgeable readers can tell us whether what's in this guide helps on the path to understanding that language. If so, then it's a start to working with and improving it.
I remember seeing somewhere that she's regained full use of her arms sometime in the last couple years and no longer uses that setup. Still pretty cool to see though.
Focus is everything.

Pointing to the marketing site for this new product and making no mention of the old business or past attempts will better guide investor interest. You can explain in the story how you got to where you are. Overall though, the pre-seed timeline is way less important than the product you have today and the traction/growth that's in progress now.
I read these and I'm always "but, but, wait!" And I recognize being on the other side of an argument I was on when the first microcomputers came out, where people with "real" computers would tell me all the reasons my microcomputer wasn't as good as a real computer and I was telling them it was good enough for what I wanted it to do.
Theranos' initial value proposition was to provide a blood test that didn't require intravenous draw, which most people don't like because it's painful and off-putting. They proposed technology that could do most common blood tests from a drop of blood, collected from a pin-prick.

Their initial value proposition was not that they would simply open blood collection sites in pharmacies or supermarkets. That could have been a serviceable proposition had it been theirs, but it wouldn't have justified their huge valuation. Their valuation is based on the idea that they would be able to do most blood tests from a drop of blood, collected from a pinprick. They have failed to accomplish this.

I hope that clears things up for you.
Usenet is like $15 a month.
That's not actually true. Home internet access affordable to non-business users has never included the necessary static IP address or upload bandwidth to run one's own servers, and has often included explicit prohibitions on such in the Terms of Service you sign to get service. Participating as a full peer on the internet has always been for the "business class".
It sounds so good that I'd be ready to ditch the opportunity of Modula-2 revision for it if I was an OOP fan. I'm still not convinced it's necessary or even ideal for various tradeoffs. Besides, whether it is or isn't, Modula-2 might be worth reviving just as a C alternative for low-level stuff with more safety. I think investigations into and development of both simultaneously is justified.
Is Linux coming to the PS4?
...I think you just came up with an amazing new startup. All we need now are some Iron Man halloween costumes and some disgruntled Lyft drivers.
Some commenters are making me wonder if Theranos' new narrative is that their value proposition is opening blood collection facilities in drug stores / supermarkets.

If it is, and Theranos feels this "new" value proposition is enough to justify their valuation, I'm not sure what they're smoking, but I would sure like some!
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Suddenlink does the same thing-ish. Sometimes I get a popup that says "service outage incoming at XXX" at the top of the page- I ended up figuring out there was a checkbox for that sorta stuff in the account options tab. Similarly, it redirects non-websites to their own search engine that never seems to go away. (ex: igrj.43 redirects to http://search.suddenlink.net/index.php?origURL=http%3A//igrj...) Again, not terrible, but really invasive to my mind.

As it stands, they're basically the only supplier near us (sub-rural texas), so I just got a VPN.
> A tip for first-timers: perform the installation with an Ethernet internet connection.

Yes, it's much easier that way.

Then, once the firmware for your wireless card is installed, configure your wired and wireless interfaces as a failover trunk (if you switch back and forth between them very often). This way, your IP address doesn't change when you {dis}connect your Ethernet cable. Obviously, everyone has different needs but this works out great for me (I plug in when at my desk and use wireless the rest of the time).
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Rogers does (did?) this too, though most people are now on their new "unlimited" plans so it hasn't been a concern recently. (Funny how unlimited plans also avoid zero-rating net neutrality concerns for first-party or partnered services...)

Telus/Koodo wireless has a proxy that at one point back in 2012 was incompatible with Chrome's bandwidth saving features, at least back when I was testing in Canary. I was never able to follow up on said proxy after reporting the bug to Google, who got in touch with Telus, but ping times were at least 100ms higher in general than what Rogers Wireless was giving me for similar assets/signal strength.
The findings of the Coronial inquest into Summer Steer's death were recently handed down: http://www.courts.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/444...
To each his own, I suppose. I wouldn't wear a regular watch in the shower, so it's just habit to take it off. Apple also doesn't recommend exposing it to the shower / soap [1] but based on your experience it seems that might be to cover themselves just in case.

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205000
There difference between the first and second example of the 'dream setup' is that the author is either completely ignoring the setup which was done to build the fooo.fr server, and that a simple static page is not the same as building a javascript based page (though it shouldn't be a huge challenge).

Having said that, is CodePen a suitable comparison of the modern version of what fooo.fr allowed in the past?

The next question becomes, what would it take to make something like codepen which let you post your code to your own domain?
10 GbE? FreeBSD.
But isn't denatonium benzoate water soluble? Using that as a coating on batteries would make for a rather unappealing product. You wouldn't enjoy opening the package or handling the things with bare hands. Children's toys would be ruined by the smell.
I just don't see why that means people will use it. That's probably a negative, don't you think? The people who have been writing Perl have to learn a new language, and people who haven't been using Perl have so many others to choose from already.

I'm glad it's finished and all, but this has just seemed like a slow-moving disaster to me.
Your parent is [rightfully] including bandwidth. If he was able to get 1gbps unmetered, then the math is in the right ballpark (that's a huge if though).

Still, I agree with the parent's general sentiment re price. The gap used to be much worse, but it's still anywhere from 2x-20x depending on what you're doing.

- EC2 prices are simply high and exclude things like bandwidth.

- The CPUs are usually 1-3 generations behind (they've gotten better with this).

- Virtualization adds overhead (again, this can be very significant if you're doing a lot of system calls)

- IO options are significantly worse

- Their network connectivity is, at best, average

You said it yourself, you're comparing a "terrible" deal to AWS and only saved 20%. Sounds to me like AWS is only 20% better than terrible ;)
The Rhine does not flow through Denmark.
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OK there's no automatic technological solution for repression but the advance of tech probably helps overall. If you look at something like the polity data for democracy things seem to have gotten better since 1800 and I doubt human nature is that much different https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polity_data_series
I do "Science Fridays" with my kids once or twice a month, and for one of them, we proved the speed of light with an old microwave and a chocolate bar.

There is a labeling plate on the microwave the specifies the frequency (~2.5ghz), and when you run it just long enough to begin melting spots of the chocolate bar, on older microwaves you can see several spots that are equidistant. Measure their separation (that's half the wavelength of the microwave), multiply by 2, multiply again by the frequency, and you have the speed of the wave.

It's poor precision (it is melted chocolate and depends on there being some standing waves, so older microwaves seem better suited) but accurate. And the math is pretty easy for kids, a ruler and a calculator.
There are syntax warts in there. Just new ones.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10793831
Because ops is free.
Support for multiple objects and making it fast is dwarfed by ... requirement for threads (not those green ones).

Now all those regions of code where "we can muck with this object before returning it because we know GC isn't running, because we don't call any allocation functions that can trigger GC" have to be locked down. (Among other problems to solve, like that a thread can be doing anything when you pause it.)
"Sorry but this is a ridiculous statement, it's like saying websites should still be able to run on Gopher."

Web devs should indeed make sites that work without javascript. They don't have to be fancy, or do every little advanced thing, but they should work.
I guess the problem is if the battery breaks after it's past the stomach?
It's not the JS ecosystem. Just the React one.

Ember's ember-cli remains the easiest way to avoid all the build tool/boilerplate annoyances.
Lots of similar stories... Check out UBeam. It's basically Theranos-lite: outspoken female founder (also light on the technical credentials), revolutionary vision/product-promises (wireless charging), and tier one VCs (~$30mm raised from a16z, Marissa Mayer, Mark Cuban, etc).

Like Theranos, the story is coming apart at the seams... I haven't seen this discussed here but UBeam is quietly raising another round via some Israeli equity crowdfunding site. Crazy!!! This after raising Series A from a16z!

Will be interesting to see how many of these unicorn type startups are around this time next year.
I am currently on my third (or maybe fourth) iPhone, and every one was replaced for multiple reasons. The headphone jacks are only good for a few thousand insertions, the batteries get worn out, the internal components start to fail, and the buttons get mushy/broken. In addition to this, sometimes people drop them, and the screen cracks. The processors, ram, and solid state memory get out-of date, and make the product feel 'slower' and less pleasant to use than newer devices. In this environment, is it worth it to make spare parts and replaceable components? Which components would you make re-usable?

On one corner of the desk that I am currently using, there sits an old aluminum 13.3" Macbook with a replaceable battery. I never replaced the battery because the laptop got dinged up, old, and slow, so the effort and resources that went into making the battery replaceable were wasted. Getting rid of 'serviceability' is often worth it.
It seems to me that the centralized internet has simply grown to be very popular because most people are indifferent to having their information stored in a centralized place.

This has not precluded a decentralized internet from existing. (At least decentralized in the sense that it is not run by X mega tech company or NSA controlled.) You can run your own email server, you can run an irc server, we have tor, you can run a server out of your home and serve web pages or even run a reddit clone to organize like minded people. In a certain sense all of this is more accessible than ever. The problem that these people have is that as the internet grew, it expanded to the wider population of non-technical users who had no need or desire for the aforementioned technologies. They are perfectly fine with Facebook and Google and not knowing or caring how it works because that is good enough for them and censorship will likely never be a problem they will have to face. They don't mind the ads because for the most part they are relevant and the privacy invasion that more technically inclined users perceive has no real affect on their lives.

The internet has not necessarily closed and centralized, it is just that the centralized closed portion of it has grown very popular while the rest has just stayed small and limited in its appeal.
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I owned an iPhone 4 up until a couple months ago. It worked fine for most of its life but near the last months most apps on it became unusable. Everything just ran so slowly. I remember google maps being particularly bad, the app would run incredibly slow and eventually crash about 30 seconds into using it basically every time I opened it up. You could still use the phone I suppose, but it would require a good amount of patience.
I took it to mean that things exist - and that all the meaning is just intellectual overlay on that existence. Wasn't the famous example that meaning exists independent of words? The meaning was already there - and the word with its meaning is an overlay? (Guess there's a reason why I'm not a philosopher...)
These 6 translations, on the same domain, come from the same language family, meaning their (likely) direct translations would naturally come from and with the same philosophy. We have over [6,000 languages on Earth](0) from which to describe and hear about human experience, happiness included. If you believe that one research team with one set of experiences can explain humanity, then I understand why you would feel uncomfortable with me taking issue with this limited worldview. If you can imagine 1000x more cultural values describing their own points of view, then you would have some idea what a report like this misses and potentially creates[1].

0: http://www.languageconservancy.org/understanding-the-issue/w...

1: https://vimeo.com/30794385 [TED Talk: Wade Davis on Endangered Cultures]
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> Since Linux is the strongest container or VM hosting OS on the server

pause for laughter

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The obvious solution is a database of these failing customers and preventing them from buying the product, right?
It's so stupid. And precisely the kind of bikeshedding silliness that persnickety programmers love to waste time with.
Use electrical tape. It's cheap and effective, but comes off easily when you need it to. Comes in several colors, too.
She says she’d like to see more government-supported media platforms — think public radio — and more robust regulations to keep digital powerhouses from becoming monopolies.

Really? That's the solution? Have the organization that is trying to invade your privacy take over more of the communication methods?
I celebrated when I made my first rendezvous in Kerbal Space Program. It's not easy to do and knowing that it was done in real life with tougher constraints was awe-inspiring.
Yeah, these tests are way too expensive. Ugh.
> Astra Taylor’s iPhone has a cracked screen. She has bandaged it with clear packing tape and plans to use the phone until it disintegrates. She objects to the planned obsolescence of today’s gadgetry, and to the way the big tech companies pressure customers to upgrade.

There's a lot of problems in the tech industry, and I wouldn't be shocked if there was a lot of planned obsolescence in hardware, but breaking a phone screen isn't planned obsolescence. That's you breaking a screen. People like to talk about their mother's grandmother's washing machine and how it never broke, but if you dropped it off a cliff it would break.

Also, a couple things I've read on reddit that made me rethink my thoughts on planned obsolescence:

It used to be that hardware engineers had to plan for errors in manufacturing, etc, and not knowing exactly how much stress this part would place on this part, and as such, had to over-engineer their products to make sure they would work. These days, we have CAD tools, and can almost exactly figure out how thick this particular piece can be to work, and exactly how strong that motor needs to be. Products aren't over-engineered anymore, and as such will fail sooner.

Additionally, when your grandmother bought a washing machine, it might have cost a larger % of your income than now. If you scale the price of older machines, they're significantly more expensive than what we have now.

Final note: You never hear about your grandmother's stuff that broke now, did you. You only saw the stuff that worked forever.

As it stands, I'm actually really concerned about the direction modern technology is going, but at the same time, hopeful. It's easier than ever before for a young inventor to create something wonderful and make sure everyone has access to it. With the same power that allows them to get their ideas to everyone else, more malevolent powers can keep an ever-closer eye on everyone, and much easier.
Because it was an influencing factor in the initial media infatuation with Theranos.

If u goto their website a lot of the media and copy is very founder-specific. Almost like they are trying to build some cult of personality around her.
If you can take the database instance offline and if you do not need to access it from outside of the beanstalk app then that is fine.
No, you are wrong here. All machines get old and wear out; digital machines wear out faster than mechanical ones. The OP you are replying to had a good point - capacitors in particular have a limited lifespan, and electronics are fragile. When the physical lifespan of 99% of the internals is 2-3 years before attrition in whatever it's form claims at least one component, why engineer something that cost 4x more but is only twice as rugged?

You seem to be hung up on Moore's law as well. And while Moore's law has lost some of its teeth in recent years(and tricks like cluster computing and specialized designs are staving off some of its effects), hardware still grows old quickly. (And bitching about your 5 year old $1k hardware is hilarious to those of us who remember paying $5-8k or more for "all the computer you will ever need" only to see it become almost entirely obsolete in less than a year.

But the fact is this: your 5 year old etch-a-sketch only has 256mb ram on which to run its OS and apps. Considering what people expect out of a tablet these days by way of web browsing, multitasking, etc, your iPad 1.0 actually IS obsolete, or quickly will be.

As to open sourcing the design - why in the world would Apple open source the trade secret that literally makes it Apple? The fact that Apple built it and no one else does is literally what makes Apple all of those earnings.
In spirit, I am with the "digital dissenters." It is a shame that the term for what they are, luddites, has been corrupted, almost from the start...

Luddites are individuals who are against the adoption of technology when it will destroy the connections individuals have with their family, friends, and community. Plenty of Kirkpatrick Sale, E.P. Thompson, etc. about for those who wish to dig deeper.

However, in practical terms, I find the digital dissenter's mistrust to be somewhat misplaced. The technology does not set itself up in a women's restroom to take up-skirt video any more than a gun pulled its own trigger recently in San Bernardino.

The soap box, jury box, and ballot box are all failing, in part because all the mistrust, anger, and energy are not being focused on creating substantial penalties for inappropriate use of the technology.
Jesus Christ: “Is it not written, you are gods?” I want to fix schizophrenia.
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1. Please stay safe.

2. Please call your close friend and get his/her advice.

3. Yes, of course, you can emerge from this and progress in life. We all feel unaccomplished in our 20s, but relative to the rest of our careers... we are.

4. The fact that you have some coding skill is vastly more than the average person and with a few side projects to show off, it's enough to get a dev job.

5. Build and ship those 1-2 side projects. Shipping builds confidence. And teaches you the unexpected parts.
Well they should at least be forthright with customers/patients. There are lots of anecdotal blog posts (one by former Apple vp of engineering) about the accuracy of their tests for example. Remember this is about people's health, so you can imagine the sensitivity here compared to your usual consumer type of startup.

In regards to the rest of your comment (as well as your other posts littering this thread), your not being difficult as so much as lazy :P

A quick Google search and 15 mins of reading will catch you up to speed about Theranos and all the (negative) attention they are currently receiving in the press. Start with the series of recent WSJ articles about Theranos.
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This is honestly just out of touch with most modern Web development. Even if its "easy" to develop (which is debatable), if its not a priority with product managers it will simply not happen in today's "more with less" technology industry. Consider also that users who block JavaScript also block most analytics packages (by design)--from a data-driven product management standpoint, users who block JavaScript literally don't exist. Web QA is hard enough across multiple browsers and OSes; adding to that a second version of the site for users whose presence can't even be quantified is not going to be popular.