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Ah. Fair enough. The infrastructure is pretty damn reliable: the web stack and database are running on two separate, shared-nothing nodes that run checks independently and concurrently. All the monitoring nodes are separate geographically, and usually with separate providers to avoid total system downtime.

As for the pricing: Pingdom charges $10/mo for similar service, though they do have more features (and a terrible UX, IMHO). Others in this space offer free plans (with crappier service/no reliability/single node) or more restrictions under $8/mo. For example Binary Canary starts at $5/mo, but for only 10 monitors.

I guess I need to include all this info somewhere visible.
I got in touch with AppSumo a little while ago and never heard back. The products they usually promote seem to be in the right category.
Content aside, this looks really really good. I went looking for the pricing table before actually playing a video. (Well, I did watch the sites intro video ofcourse)

Love the map and fiddle integration. Can't wait to see what pops up down the line.
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> But from a letter-of-the-law view of things, Slater almost certainly does not hold the copyrights on those image

We currently do not view non-human primates as human, so what's the difference between a monkey taking a picture, and me building a machine that automatically takes a photo? Who holds the copyright on the result?
Yep, the full stack is all javascript running on node.js and websockets. We used SoundManager 2 for the audio: http://www.schillmania.com/projects/soundmanager2
Thanks for the advice. I'll look into this.
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Not to comment on your argument about Android, but the statement (in original article) definitely seems to me presumptuous. I stopped reading after that.
Terminal.app has tabs, at least as of Snow Leopard. Also does split panes (but they are the same session). I use Terminal quite a lot but have not found it lacking enough to consider replacing it.
I think the negative reviews need to put into perspective that they just are eliminating people who don't align with the main viewpoints of Facebook - I for one would probably be one of them, the idea of making this giant social networking tool doesn't bring me much joy.

I think those people should say more about what led them to Facebook in the first place. If it isn't a love of "connecting" people, then it probably wasn't that great of a reason (e.g., solely money or fame, though I could be wrong)
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So you didn't find a story of a legit game manifacturer commiting multiple felonies just to embarass those darn pirates a little .. implausible?
My brother and I were talking about technology gaps today, specifically about how some older people get stuck day after day in front of their TVs watching trash because they never picked up anything past the VCR, or even the VCR at all (in the case of my grandparents).

We talked about a simplified Netflix-type account/device that would make suggestions, be dead simple to use, and allow an 80-90 year old to re-watch old classics, view documentaries and the like without commercials, repeats, confusion, etc. If something reasonable existed, who wouldn't shout their elderly parents or grandparents something like this for $xx/mo. Ideally, older generations would have a diverse range of friends and social activities to while away their hours, but often this just isn't the case and they are stubborn, have language barriers if immigrants, etc.
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Being from The Netherlands originally and living in Australia for the past 6 years I have come to notice that Australians aren't born demonstrators. They're complainers though, but they won't go out in the streets to enforce their complains. Only "hippies" would do such a thing. Very different from Europe.

Next to that there is an Australian government which is, besides the fact that they're not really a government but more a sort of unfolding prime time television soap opera, extremely patronising towards it's citizens.

Another problem is of course and which plays a key roll in the development of Australia is that they're so isolated. In Europe there's this cluster of close nit countries watching each other. No one is really watching Australia and Australia looks towards the US for cultural and social guidance. Not the best example in my opinion...
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The shuttle was the worst of both worlds. They replace enough parts to make each mission absurdly expensive, and keep enough components in place that it's extremely difficult to be sure they won't fail in flight.
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I think Apple makes products so good/popular that people feel it is their right to own one, not a privilege. Also, I have had non-technical people use "hanging" to describe a computer which had gone into an unresponsive state. So, what's the big deal.
Poll: would you buy a service that bills only in €?
I'm building a SAAS product targeting small companies (monthly subscription). Given we're a french company but the product is not location-dependent, we're going to launch internationally.

The easiest choice given we're a french company is to bill in €.

I have no idea if billing in € is a blocking point for most of you, hence this poll.

Thanks for your input (and comments)!
€ is OK
€ is OK but I would really prefer $ if possible
€ is not OK at all
It works well for me. I always remember I need to get my card back, but more than once I have almost walked away from the kind that return your card first without taking my cash out of the slot because I was in a hurry.
I'd like to try iTerm2, but "groups" in Terminal.app is a must-have feature for me.

Anyone know of a workaround for iTerm2 that will let me save a group of windows and starting commands?
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> That is, if you follow me at all. Because until I place you
> in a Circle of mine, my stream looks empty to you, much like
> the timeline of a Twitter user who has protected their
> tweets. Why would you even want to follow me, not knowing
> what to expect?

I beleive the author is sort of complaining about Google+ not working for self-promotion... I beleive this is actually a feature in a social network. What I don't like in Twitter is that lots of people are trying to be interesting in what 140 characters they write to get more followers, and care a lot about how the streak of their last 10 or so tweets "look". I believe the way Twitter works and the way it markets itself encourages this behaviour.

As a non-famous non-wanting-fame person I want to use social networks to keep in touch with people that I already know, and to get timely updates or insightful comments from sources that have already earned my respect.
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Jumping on this iPad bandwagon. My 90-year-old grandpa hasn't ever used a computer; he used an old Microsoft WebTV since about 1998 so that he could send and receive email and pictures, and the only other things he knew how to do with it were check stocks and weather.

Apparently the last remaining WebTV portal server at Microsoft is getting dusty and flaking out sometimes, so we bought him an iPad (his vision is pretty good.) We preloaded it with bookmarks to local news, stocks, weather, email, a few little reference sorts of apps, and a few games (e.g. he really likes Cribbage.)

At first, he was pretty skeptical, but we spent a few hours showing him all the stuff he could do with it, and he figured it out pretty easily. Now he's perfectly happy with it and likes it a lot better than his WebTV. I'm not sure if he really has a conceptual model of the Internet or anything, but he can do all the stuff he cares about easily.

The most amazing thing to him is Google Maps. He could hardly believe that he could just flick around and see a picture of his house and our houses and all the houses of his friends. I'm not sure he actually bought it when I told him that they drove a car around every street and took pictures.
I don't get it. Kik could give me direct API access to their servers. Or I could run my own Jabber/XMPP servers. What's the benefit of piping through another App on the client?
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Can't make everyone happy. Google is offering some limited mechanisms for controlling what you see (by assigning people you follow to circles) and who you speak to (by sending some posts to specific circles.) The OP wants to have the ability to let readers filter posts based on which circle the poster sent them to (i.e. subscribe to his tech posts or his german posts, or both.) I understand why that's valuable but I don't think he realizes that's probably a corner case.

It's also not clear why Twitter doesn't suffer from the same problem; he's saying he compensates by having multiple Twitter accounts, but that seems like a workaround rather than a feature.

Implementing what the OP suggests would likely increase the complexity of the Circles system a great deal while not adding a ton of value for most users; this is a classic case of what you can't design based on the most extreme needs of users without compromising your base usability.
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But incandescents flicker too, even if they don't dim all the way. Google says that modern CFLs should all have electronic ballasts that first rectify the current and then run at over 10kHz. Maybe you've only experienced cheap ones with shoddy ballast?
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I switched to terminal from iTerm 1. I switched to iTerm 2 from terminal because of:

- true split windows (cmd-d horizontal, cmd-shift-d vertical), as many as you can fit

- good split window navigation (cmd-opt-arrow)

- "save" window split setup - cmd-shift-s to save, cmd-shift-r to restore

- better search, all from the command line

- full 256 color support without any hacks

- copy to clipboard on selection option (similar to windows shell if you're familiar with that)

- fullscreen mode with cmd-enter

- better speed than iTerm 1 (comparable to terminal, the reason I switched to it in the first place)

(I don't think I've remapped the above keys, but if I have, easy key remapping is another nice thing about iTerm2 :)
You're an absolute hypocrite. If America is so bad leave.

Scientologists are better? Laughable.

And please what country/government hasn't committed some wrong? You're holding the USA to the most unreasonable hypocritical standard. Why are you not condemning Russia for Stalin or China for Mao or N. Korea or Iraq for Saddam etcetera? They've all killed tens of millions more. Your silence speaks volumes.

Is America the only country who has done wrong?
It's not like Google advertises the Chrome version number, though. In fact, they seem to try to hide which version you're on, so I don't think that this is a marketing gimmick at all. Chrome's release schedule has a lot more to do with the changing nature of user software and the Internet - version numbers shouldn't matter, all users should aim to run the latest version, and updates should come quickly.

These are all admirable goals and Chrome's versioning is just a side effect of newer software development methods. Chrome is perhaps on track to win the browser wars because it's the best browser and gets new features the fastest; IE's release cycle is still humiliatingly slow.
low standards for patent eligibility

I'm not sure if the standards are low, rather that the examiners don't abide by the rules set out by the USPTO. Novel and non-obvious are both requirements.

because the meaning of a patent’s claims are often not clear until after they have been litigated

This is another failing of current examiners. The patent should be written such that one skilled in the art could reproduce it. The patents are convoluted and unclear enough that one likely couldn't produce much of what is patented, because its not clear what the invention is. The examiners should make people resubmit patents, under time constraints, so that they are clear. Much like submitting to a journal.
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Looks like an Android phone to me. Why wouldn't Android apps work on it?
I would not buy in $, but only in €
The visor-like mode is enabled if you dock it to a window-edge (prefs->profile->window tab, 'style = top of screen' setting). System-wide hotkey settings are in Prefs->Keys

There's also a 'hidden' setting for the animation delay, settable with

`defaults write com.googlecode.iterm2 HotkeyTermAnimationDuration \
-float 0.25`
In a similar fashion, Amazon could give you the physical keys from their AWS datacentres or otherwise you could just buy some hardware, install linux on all of them and run your own cloud infrastructure.

It's exaggerated, of course, but i hope rationale behind the api is more clear this way :)
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Because for large elements there is a delay, especially when your user has a slow browser and is talking to a third party service that is far away.

For example, say you ran a company that had about 100 paying users, almost all of which were in the SV tech scene. A fine opportunity to use JS because they all have fast browsers and the odds that the delay between KISS Metrics or Mixpanel and them are fairly low.

If, on the other hand, you sell Bingo Card Creators to thousands of teachers around the globe the latency is going to kill you. A teacher in England will see the button (s)he wants to click on, then all of a sudden it is gone and replaced with a intro video, or, even worse, the prices have all gone up and there are different options on the pricing page.

Not only is your split test reporting the wrong winner (because of a negative bias on the B side of the test) but it can also erode the confidence visitors had in your service.
I've not read into the technicalities of it, but it seems extraordinary that all four mobile operators would have voicemail that is wide open. Maybe it wasn't all of them? Nothing's been said about that. And I think that the Data Protection Act might make losing personal data an offence of strict liability, that is to say one doesn't need to prove any negligenct. The fact that the data was lost is enough.
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Yes, this was my thought too. Through their API can't you essentially mimic the same functionality as if cards were stored on your servers without having to deal with PCI compliance?
My father always said Engineers and Doctors (at the same experience level) get roughly the same salary in Germany and France. Not true in the US or Canada.
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Apparently in Chrome there is a fit to screen button, whereas in Firefox there isn't. (I haven't looked at it in other browsers.) They must be doing a browser detection to turn that feature on. I wonder why.
Nothing to see here, only a stupid video trying to get views.
Wait, I'm sorry, I see what you mean. You're right; manned shuttle missions were the only way to keep Hubble from going to waste.
There's Applescript support, so you could probably cobble together a script that'd launch your multiple windows & commands.

There's also Window->Save Window Arrangement, but I believe that only allows for a single arrangement.

Feel free to add a feature request at http://code.google.com/p/iterm2/issues/list (There's plans for eventually moving everything over to github, but the issues will get migrated too)

I'm working on improving the preferences UI and back-end, but I'm learning obj-c and Cocoa as I go, so it's a slowish process :)
I've built LED displays and the lowest frequency at which I wouldn't notice flickering was 500 Hz. This was at 1/8 duty cycle though, so you might get away with a lower frequency at a higher duty cycle.

I find your claim that 50Hz was enough rather strange. Even incandescent light bulbs have noticeable flicker at below 50 Hz and those have considerable warm up / cool down times, as opposed to the LEDs.
I guess the secret service is now tasked with tracking down "computer fraud"? - - says Kyle: the warrant was served because the site violated 18 USC section 1030
Children are people for whom everything is new. Their brains are geared towards rapid absorption of new experiences and learning by exploration.

Older folks are better at analysis and strategy but have a tendency to see things in terms of what they already know. After all, for most of human history, once you learned how the world worked it didn't really change much for the rest of your life.
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I like it when you right click-> Click on Save as video..
and unfortunately, this video is not available in Germany because it may contain music for which GEMA has not granted the respective music rights.
Sorry about that.
I for one am interested in HOW he is going to claim ownership over my bitcoins. Also how he is gonna try to actually claim ownership, honestly, over any of it.
If he tries to use force to get the domain transferred to him, we can move it.
Try to take control over the bitcoin github? I dont think so.
Try to to take control over all bitcoins?? LOL I dont think so.
There is also plenty of proof of previous commerce. It is built into the block chain.( http://blockexplorer.com/b/1 ) tell me the time of the first block there please?
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Voicemails were deleted from the missing girl's phone.

One - they could have been evidence (apparently killers often leave sympathetic messages to try and deflect attention), and two - it made the parents and the police think she was still alive when she was in fact already dead.
Yeah, but having a website IS. If someone is suspected of a crime, they should be formally accused and put on trial (aka "due process") before stripping them of their rights and property. Wild concept, I know.
listening to the voicemail of technophobe A-list celebrities who have their pin set to 0000 is absolutely Standard Journalistic Practice. I admit that and know it, because I've never had to do it myself, but I am a journalist. Any real hacker must take the position that they are essentially inviting people to intercept their comms. They deserve everything they get. What, they expect tabloids to voluntarily use the honour system?!
I work for a SAAS that started in the UK. They used to bill in £'s, then in €'s and finally in $'s. Found that changing to $'s only significantly increased conversions.

Also, interesting - got another large uptick when we started accepting Amex - we're B2B and many US folks have company cards.
For the future, have you considered adding code that would recognize your location (via IP, for example), and display an approximate price in that nation's primary currency?

e.g. if you read a US ip address, display dollars, or a Japanese IP, yen?
Both Paypal and the banks when using credit card do the currency conversion transparently (at a cost, of course). So for individuals it's pretty much the same, aside from patriotic issues...

For businesses, if you are targeting them, make sure you sort the VAT issue up front.

I'm €uropean too and it has never stopped me from buying products and services from the US, the perfidious a£bion or even china.
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As far as I know, MSFT doesn't have a trademark on the term "window" as used to describe objects in a GUI. They have a trademark on the term "Windows" as a whole system.

Same reason you can buy "linux" laundry detergent.
How do I switch between split windows?
0. If it's a recurring purchase, I like predictability. Unfortunately, the exchange rates change, and so what I get billed each month will change. This isn't a huge deal, but I like to glance at my statements, immediately ignore things I know about, and look for anomalies.

1. Despite traveling around Europe several times, I've never really known how the behind the scenes conversion played out: is my bank the best deal? does it take a cut? There's an uncertainty here that I don't like.

2. I found out several years ago that my (household name) bank was screwing me with the rates on my international purchases, and that there was a class action lawsuit about it. That lowered my trust significantly.

Edit: I'm American.
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Umm.. anti-trust ? shouldn't we be glad that things are moving faster now...
> The difficulty of an attack has nothing whatsoever to do with the severity of the resulting offense.

My point which you gloss over is in the definition of "attack".

Whether browsing to a publicly accessible url with no security is an attack or not, is a very grey area.
I have a hard time changing functionality of the alt key between alt and meta. I Terminal.app I just go to preferences and it is there. Here it takes a little more..
He has said before that he regards Brooks as his daughter.

But this is all about the Sky TV deal.
I was in the same boat. Especially since they request the offline data access permission. I finally relented by creating a crap Facebook account. I'd have been happier just giving them my email address and setting up a login in a more traditional manner.