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The cheapest zone, yes, so presumably the most popular. And who doesn't use EBS?

You sound like you think I'm being unfair. Why? Plenty of sites were badly affected by that outage; it precipitated a lot of self-examination at some companies I know of. I don't think I am overstating the issues here.
Something of a twist: I used to post a lot on some topics/lists and people tried to shout me down. Arguing with them wasn't effective in swaying opinion. I began looking for other outlets for my need to "talk" and saying less on certain topics and reserving more of what I did say for blogs/websites. I say a lot less on those topics these days. But people are beginning to listen to me and not count me so much a fruitcake. When I tried endlessly to explain, thinking they just didn't understand, it hurt my credibility and convinced people it was about ego and attention-mongering. I still feel there is a great deal of information which needs to be conveyed on those topics, but I continue to work at finding ways for my communication to be effective and not just so much churn. Since I'm a huge blabbermouth, this just does not come naturally to me at all.
I think you nailed it.
To each his own, and a good infrastructure probably is a mix of cloud, virtual, physical servers.
I currently have a similar setup as yours (but I suspect mine is smaller, about 40 machines total), but my main concern is with my primary DC which seems to periodically loose utility power, loose A/C, cut all fibers at once, etc....
You misunderstand the purpose of logical fallacies. They do not indicate when someone has lost the argument. In fact, the belief that this is the case is itself a logical fallacy.
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>You might not be able to run the latest Windows OS reliably on a 5-7 year old laptop.

That's true, but, unlike with OSX, previous versions of Windows are still supported by the manufacturer and third parties. You might not be able to run Windows 7 on that hardware, but you'll certainly be able to run Windows XP. And, unlike with OSX revisions, Windows XP will be supported for several years yet.

I have a Pentium 4 box with 2GB RAM that runs Windows XP reliably. Its been a solid workhorse for almost 8 years now. Before that, I was running Windows 2000 on a Pentium 2 that was 11 years old.

Of course, another advantage of WinTel systems is that their hardware becomes more and more supported by Linux as they age. When XP finally reaches EOL, I plan to migrate this box to Linux and continue using it as a secondary workstation.
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Grades are not binary. An average grade doesn't indicate worthlessness, intellectual or otherwise.

To answer a slightly different question than the one you asked: I don't think a department can care about quality of its students if it marks differently-qualified students as equal.
They don't do anything, yet. They are angling for uncompensated market research, but the submission had little content and so isn't earning attention from HN.
According to Google Analytics, Google is 97.3% of my search engine traffic.
Why aren't consumer electronics products in there? It seems to me they are only picking those with a high chance of being made in America.

Also, does this "made in America" refer to the whole product or just the packaging/assembly, while the components are still made in China?
The four zones in US-East have exactly the same prices.

And I don't use EBS.
Its because they see you plunking down hard earned money and getting nothing of substance in return. For example, the laptop I'm typing this on now is a 15" Toshiba that I purchased for $650. The Macbook Pros at the time I bought this had worse specifications (in terms of CPU, RAM, disk and graphics) yet cost more than $300 more.

Why should I pay $300 to get less?
What goes through their minds? Probably something like "I want to see what my friends are up to" or "I want to post a picture I just took" or "I'm bored and want to play Farmville". They just want to accomplish their task and browsers/URLs/search engines/keyboards etc. are just a means to that end.

I could imagine a similar analogy would be someone who is a professional racecar driver or just really into cars would be driving on a road thinking "I'm going to ease into this turn, and stay close to the inside" whereas most other people would be thinking "I have to remember to buy milk at the store after I pick up Jimmy from daycare".
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Do you have more information or some links about OS development on ARM?
It's not private enterprise, at the very least.
How was the agency model forced on Amazon? Apple offered a better deal, and if I recall correctly, even before the iBooks Store had launched, Amazon changed their terms to offer the same deal. Amazon offered this same deal to everyone, including us. I'm not under a misunderstanding of what the deals are... I think you believed what you read in this press release and took it at face value.

A "model" cannot include "other stipulations". It is simply a broad description of an arrangement. There are many books that are not available for the Kindle or on iBooks, and it has been many years since they were published.

In short, the linked to article is FUD, Amazon chose to meet Apple's terms because they rightly recognized they were more competitive.

I agree, it is stupid that you can buy the physical book for less than the ebook. However, no matter how stupid it is, it isn't price fixing.
I don't think so (but your thought is very interesting anyway) because when Bing lobbies to get higher stats, they may get higher ads revenue but in the long run, particularly in the FTC investigation, they will run into bigger trouble.

But yeah, this is just my guess...
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Maybe try using Google in SSL? It may force it to just take you to the results, but I don't have a way to test that. I get encrypted.google.com... (the query)
So freakin funny! Junior and "for you hippies" cracked me up. Reminded me of an idea I have of doing curse "voices" for gps devices. Instead of "recalculating" it would say something like "you missed the turn again you idiot. Let's try again but don't screw up this time".
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What made Scala too complicated? The type system, or something else?
For some reason, I read it as if it were the writings of Ignatius Reilly.
I don't think that's what it means. I might be wrong, but I got the impression it meant that 75% of the total money spent on motor vehicles ultimately stays in the US in some fashion. Either because it was assembled here or because of dealer commissions or because it costs money to hire US companies to move the cars from the port to the lot, etc.
"It's easier to ask forgiveness than permission"
Thanks for putting this up - gave me lot of chuckles and nostalgia!

I must have installed RH5.1 many times on my Pentium - kinda regret not having tried Redneck option even once!
Thanks Fling, you da man. its very impressive how you do such detail analysis of your work.
For what its worth, I found Rackspace's support to not be worth the extremely high cost. Softlayer is just as good.
Monthly generator testing is, and should be, standard for any data center. Same with the UPSes - monthly testing to make sure they can handle the load long enough for the generators to kick in. Throwing the switch on the mains is probably not happening anywhere on a regular basis, though. There may be "routine" events (some sort of electrical infrastructure upgrade) that causes the data center to be put onto generator power, but throwing the mains just to test is a very risky endeavor, and one that a data center provider who has very high power availability guarantees with expensive penalties, is not like likely to undertake.
I've been using Clojure for maybe 3 months now.

> The documentation is bad.

Mostly true. Initially, I got The Joy of Clojure, which is really good and helped me bootstrap my learning process. Now, if I need to know something, I look up the source. This process seems to work well.

The only problem with this strategy is that sometimes I'll not know of a better way to solve a problem (for example, I only discovered update-in a few days ago. Don't ask what I've been doing before that.)

The best way to solve this problem is by pair programming with someone else who knows Clojure. Failing that, you can hop on IRC; people there are super helpful and willing to write big code samples just to make sure you get it. And be sure to read a lot of source code to pick up common idioms, etc.

> Error messages are unhelpful.

This is true, but here's a quick tip: if you just look for errors that come from your-namespace.core (or whatever) then you can rapidly ignore about 99% of the extraneous junk that pops up.

Unfortunately, there's always that 1/10 chance that your error has no line number. Not much you can do about that, except guess where the reported error is coming frm, and hope for more progress in clojure in clojure :/

> IDE support

Use emacs with swank clojure. Just do it. It's amazing, and you won't look back. I'm saying this as a hardcore vim user with visual mode tattooed on his back. (I have to use viper-mode and vimpulse - which makes emacs pretty much just the same as vim.)

> It suffers from using the JVM

I really don't understand this point. I believe JVM integration is a win all around. It allows for speed without much effort, and it gives access to a huge wealth of libraries without need for a community to build them.

Some closing remarks:

You've got to remember that Clojure is only 3 or 4 years old. If you're (subconsciously or not) comparing it to languages with 10 or 20 years of history, the older languages will always dominate in terms of documentation, support, etc. This is unfortunate for new languages, but also exciting, because it means that even beginners like me and you can pick off low hanging fruit and make important contributions.
I'll share some figures for some gaming sites from google analytics, these are global though, does anyone know how to narrow down by country with ga?

site a: 110m page views past 30 days, 51% Search engine traffic, google is 95%+

site b: 90m page views past 30 days, 77% Search engine traffic, google is 95%+
The difference between Scala and Clojure, in my opinion, is primarily one of philosophy.

* Clojure is strongly and dynamically typed. Scala has a complex type system, which from what I understand many Scala developers don't fully understand or utilize it. Clojure doesn't suffer much in performance, however, because you can sprinkle in type hints for performance after the fact wherever it turns out to be necessary.

* Clojure is a Lisp. The benefits of that are a whole other discussion, but homoiconicity and macros are undoubtedly pretty cool.

* Scala is multi-paradigm, Clojure is unabashedly single-paradigm.

* Scala includes the kitchen sink, Clojure is highly opinionated about what it provides. As Brian Hurt says, "It's not what a programming language makes possible, it's what it makes easy." For one example, you can do immutability in Scala, but you're also free to go in and make a hairball of state if you want. Clojure has decided immutability is good, and forces you to manage state in a controlled way.

* Clojure is less complex (in the sense Stu Halloway uses the word in his talk on Simplicity, http://blip.tv/clojure/stuart-halloway-simplicity-ain-t-easy...)

Full disclosure: I'm a huge Clojure fan and author of Practical Clojure, and haven't used Scala on any nontrivial projects, so I'm probably somewhat biased.
I guess you dismissed the part were he said "have a cup of COFFEE on me" (my emphasis) as an implicit rule governing the use of the funds. So you are saying if it can be done it okay. He was wrong to hack it and you are wrong for trying to intellectualize his actions.
On the other hand, just as with database backups, making them is only half of the story. You have to test restores/recovery. Does your plan actually work? What have you overlooked? What edge cases do you need to accommodate?

Many data centers will test backup power generation regularly just for this reason. It's not unheard of at all and the risk of a problem at a planned time is worth the confidence in knowing that the system is more likely to work when needed at an unexpected time.
"The third component, the "Applications processor" is the A4/A5 chip. Apple designed this under license from ARM and so Apple owns the IP. Samsung simply operates as a foundry."

No, Samsung actually designed and manufactured pretty much the entire A4.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_A4#Design

The story seems to be different with the A5.
I'll have our biz dev guy follow up with you. He'll know more about how the senior industry uses us exactly as well as having more input of additional potential uses within that industry.
Previous submissions:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2856042 <- Many comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2858087
I think the answer lies in several areas, yours probably explains 90% of it.

Other things:

-Comparison of average number of visits a month per unique user: Google-21.5, Yahoo-18, Bing-8.9

-From what I have seen with my companies own internal numbers, Yahoo & Bing users may be more inclined to click on search ads. Unless a webmaster is running a big ad campaign, they aren't going to see huge volume from these two search engines.

-What percentage of Yahoo's 140m monthly users are visiting the site to use Yahoo Mail verse to search?

I recommend using compete.com for traffic intelligence. It fairly accurately reflects my own site's data. I've been paying $500 a month for their lower premium tier for a good 2 years with no complaints for anything other than idiotic salespeople.

Another comment, as a webmaster comparing your percentage of traffic from one search engine verse the other is meaningless unless your rankings are exactly the same in all of them. A real test would have to be done with a PPC campaign strictly receiving traffic from google.com, bing.com, and yahoo.com
Samsung also does ship-building (Samsung Heavy Industries), engineering, and life insurances

You forgot manufactures cars and airplanes and constructs apartment buildings, runs a theme park more popular than Epcot center and Disney/MGM owns some department stores, makes clothes ...among many others ;)

All of Samsung earned ~$206 billion in revenue in 2010 (more than 3x Apple's) and have about 6x the number of employees. Just Samsung Electronics has an estimated market cap of around $250billion.
Let me put your "doubt" to rest:
https://kdp.amazon.com/self-publishing/help?topicId=A2MLJ06E...

The "%30 royalty" is Amazon's old model, the "%70 Royalty" is the Apple "Agency model".

When Apple announced the model, Amazon moved to offer the same model, and they offered it to everybody.

That we're self publishing is relevant only in the fact that we've actually published a book on Amazon and are relating the current situation, rather than making an argument based on "doubts". The purpose of this press release, by the way, is to sow such fear, uncertainty and doubt, and as you'll notice it has many assertions and little in the way of facts.
Another article about this was posted a few days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2854974
I switched from screen to tmux about three months ago. It's easier to configure, does vertical splits, and is under more active development (apparently).
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This is anecdotal, but I've heard Steve Jobs is notorious for doing this.
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It sounds like you're not a fan of Rackspace (and that's fine) but you can't honestly believe that an API sends an email to a tech. That's just completely false statement that no one in there right mind should believe.
You're right, and at the same time the card existed for a couple weeks and it made a bunch of people happy while giving everyone a lot to think about!

You're right, and at the same time we have a functioning society where people love and grow and the sun's still shining, and I experience kindness more frequently than the opposite!
I think that's also a very reasonable point of view. However, at the same time, I its also reasonable to say that there is a group that could include people we would consider non-hackers that use this type of application (e.g., those with any sensitive/private information on their computers). Maybe they wouldn't use the exact same application, but something to track their laptop may be of use. Then again, maybe those people can afford a system with a built in tracking devise that can't easily be removed (requires more than just wiping the system). Meanwhile, hackers are left to add a "hack" to their computer that can do the same thing.

Honestly, I see your point, and both sides. I've just met a few people that have a similar service installed onto their phones, and I certainly would not call them hackers. Similarly, if someone told me they had this installed on their computer, I wouldn't think, "Oh, cool! S/he's a hacker!" On the other hand, if I saw someone starting "Learn Python the Hard Way" I _would_ think, "Oh shit, s/he's becoming a hacker!". Anyway, I don't really care too much. You do make a good point though. In general, a hacker might be more likely to aggressively try to track you down :)
You mean availability zone. Well I guess me, Reddit, Foursquare, and plenty of other sites just got lucky in the bad availability zone.

Ah yes, here's the classic AWS apologist pattern in full effect. You don't use EBS! Of course you don't, you would have to be some kind of friggin' idiot to use EBS. So what do you use for, say, MongoDB data files, that is different from morons like me who stupidly assumed they could/should use EBS?
Or maybe the next service pack. Thinking of VS2008 feature pack/SP1 which added TR1.
From the article: "I assume that back in the 1940s, a prof couldn’t really just give all A’s to his or her classes: someone would probably notice and say something. But now we really can, and it’s been that way for awhile."

US College enrollment, 1940: 1.5Mm [1]
US College enrollment, 2009: 19.5Mm [2]

Average yearly cost of 4 year Uni., 1940: $6000 (adj. for inflation) [3]
Average yearly cost of 4 year Uni., 2009: $20-35k [4]

So yeah, none of this has anything do do with admitting unprecedented numbers of students—many of whom are woefully unprepared for the experience—to universities already stretched so thin that you might not even meet a tenured professor until your second or third year.

None of this has anything to do with entire sections being managed, instructed, and graded by TAs who themselves are just figuring out what the hell they're doing. None of this has anything to do with a complete lack of focus on accountability by administrations far more concerned with collecting as much money as possible to bankroll research by a handful of their most notable staff, and occasionally give themselves nice bonuses.

It's probably because professors feel sad when they're forced to objectively evaluate things, and they would just give everyone A's if not for their inclination to protect the mental image of their own GPAs fifty years ago.

Again, from the article: "So, now that we’re giving out the grades, we don’t want to devalue this currency."

Newsflash pal, that currency is already way past devalued. We're not even trading in the same market any longer. And this sort of bizarre, self-absorbed postulation, with absolutely no acknowledgement of the poison coursing through the system which you—dear author—have devoted your (professional) life to, casts serious doubts in my mind that it will ever recoup its lost value.

[1]: http://www.census.gov/apsd/cqc/cqc13.pdf

[2]: http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2011/tables/11s0273.p...

[3]: http://www.reducemycollegecosts.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/...

[4]: http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2010/08/24/the-averag...
The biggest sellers from foreign carmakers often end up manufactured in their USA-based plants, which then makes them "Made in America". Add that to the American carmakers and it seems reasonable to reach 75%.
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Actually, the goodwill generated is that of knowing that there are otherzs in the world that are kind, just and fair just like you. It was a miserable thing to do. First it started as simple mischief when he created a hack. It progressed to diabolical when he actually took funds. It reached nothing less than evil when he posted the hack for others to inflict the same evil.
I came up with that theory because I couldn't think of anything else that explained my 2 hour waits to get a new instance. Not the other way round.
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My programming blog gets 99.35% of its search engine traffic from Google.

AnyNewBooks.com: 96.44%

My math blog: 92.91%

OK, those are technical or for a tech savvy crowd. How about my wife's vintage blog which attracts mainly a non-technical female demographic? 84.08%. Or her Girl Guides' blog? 78.74%.

My father in law's local renovation site: 81.48%.

Not a single site out of a couple of dozen I've access to, shows anything less than 75%.

With these numbers at hand, I have a really hard time believing that Google's market share is anything below 75-80%.
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Looks like a good beginning text.

I have over a half a dozen Prolog books, my favorite being "The Art of Prolog." Bratko's books, "Prolog and Natural Language Analysis," and "Natural Language Processing in Prolog" are also favorites. I started decades ago with C&M - also a great start.

It has been over 5 years since anyone has hired me to do any Prolog development. I am not sure how widely used it is now.
It shall be shapped like an apple.
Apple offered a better deal. That may be a competitive threat, but that is competition, not a threat of... violence? criminality? What are you implying?

Amazon was not forced to do anything, they chose to offer the same deal Apple does because they wanted to keep the business.

If Amazon only capitulated to this deal in order to keep the big six on board, why do they offer it to everybody, including small publishers?

https://kdp.amazon.com/self-publishing/help?topicId=A2MLJ06E...

That "%70 royalty" option is comparable to Apple's deal.

Also, why am I arguing with people who are not in a better grasp of the facts than I am, but who are instead repeating un-substantiated speculation and assertion?

I think you owe me some factual citations- namely, how Amazon was "forced" to do anything. Remember, choosing not to do business with someone is simply an expression of freedom of association. This is a recognized right in the USA. My ford dealership might want to sell toyotas, but toyota has the right not to sell me cars, "forcing" me to get them on the secondary market. So, when you say "force" you must mean a legal, or physical, rather than competitive threat, right? Because if it was simply the pressure from a competing deal that was better, well, Amazon voluntarily took that deal, they were not "forced" into it.

Please also show how apple did anything other than offer a better deal.

If you're going to make the allegation, shouldn't you have some evidence to cite?
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Franz supports a port of his Prolog in their AllegroGraph products, in addition to Allegro Prolog.