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It's obvious that there are many people who are upset about this price hike, how poorly it has been explained (showing "this is how much more we'll be charging you really soon!" side-by-side with the current pricing really doesn't help), and that it feels like a bait and switch given how AppEngine was originally sold on the basis of scaling against CPU usage rather than instance hours.

Telling us that Python 2.7 may reduce the cost multiplication factor by a bit just isn't very helpful.

Additionally, it also makes Google look a little bit stupid. We're supposed to accept that a world-leading company in the field of data processing, storage and server farms weren't able to determine ballpark running costs for their selling off their excess machine hours until now? Pfff.

In light of the fact that GAE hasn't exactly been the most stable platform, technical support has been untimely and poor, high priority bugs can stay acknowledged for years, a timeline for SSL support is still non-existant, and full search capabilities are only now impending at some unknown date (and how much will that cost when it finally arrives?), it really does make them look like rank amateurs.

The AWS team must be laughing.
It's a whole lot more than the zero California will earn from the ecommerce tax. California still has no authority to enforce a sales tax outside its borders. Amazon now has no physical presence in California. So far the only effect of the tax is to lose jobs in California.
They make a ton of money on those products. It's all part of the ecosystem. Android users use Google search. So do Chrome users. Analytics users use AdWords (get too many hits with Analytics and you need to start spending some sweet AdWords bucks). YouTube and Gmail users see ads (Google Apps business users pay money directly).
Why just Latin America. I'm in Canada and I'm tired of using Paypal as the most developer friendly gateway. WePay is only for USA, BrainTree also and Stripe is still in beta and will be focused on USA.
If you could develop something like that for Canada I guess you will have hundreds of developers interested. Beside that you can exclude the complexity of taking many countries and banks.
Same here, I'm also a poor student with a really dumb phone :-)

I just think the majority would use such a site on their mobile. That's why I go mobile first. And I won't charge money, it's more like a little side project to try out new stuff!
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Google's instance-hour is process-instance-hour. The current GAE Python can only serve one web request by one process. Multiple web requests coming in would spin up multiple processes. Besides the CPU, Google charges the app while the process is waiting for IO, like waiting for receiving/sending to the browser.

But measuring process-instance-hour is misleading. In a typical web box, spinning up an extra process takes very little resource since most process memory are shared with the parent process, and most web apps are IO bound, like waiting for network/file/DB, idling taking little CPU. In a server box, many processes can be crammed in (like the shared hosting box). But Google counts those duplicate processes as separate ones and charge the idle time these processes take. That's why you see the outrageous bill.

What's more insane is that Google charges the process-instance-hour like a machine-instance-hour. GAE charges $0.08/hr for process-instance-hour while AWS charges $0.02 to $0.08/hr for the whole machine.
I'm curious what the criteria is for "highly successful".

It might be too much to ask, but I wish I could see/know revenue or profit for all the companies on the list–especially the freemium ones.
depending on the size of the app, anywhere from $10 to $50 for a complete regression test and useful feedback on the app. I've never paid anyone though as it's easy to get friends to beta test
Possibly, but apparently 5 years of USD to EUR exchange rate data most closely correlates to searches for the king tut exibit!

http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:l9QRCEVZg...
They're "blackmailing" the politicians by making it look like they don't want jobs in California. That's a pretty sensitive subject to be voting against...at least when Amazon frames the argument that way.

The reality is that the jobs brought in will amount to about 2% of the sales tax revenue that would be brought in. But do you think the public will understand the math, or the phrase "voted against job creation"?
Element layout doesn't matter on the web?

I refer you to any of the 80% of all websites I've ever visited, they look like complete ass on my portrait-oriented monitor, if they even fit.
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You can always download and install the latest kernels while keeping the older versions as backup. No need to worry about GRUB settings either as that's all handled when you install the kernel debian packages.

Only caveat to this is you might have to reinstall your graphics driver for the new kernel.
There's a setting for the latency threshold causing a new instance to get spun up.
data() and attr() huh?
For somebody like me that doesn't use JavaScript and jQuery on daily basis it's quite a mess to remember all those rules.

I can see benefit of using 'data-*' attributes though.
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Ha. Well, Scala was designed by hardcore JVM people after all. You could count me in the second camp. It's possible that some fondness for the JVM is required to have much interest in Scala.

It is a unique language, though. Functional, yet lets you program in nouns, unlike verb-obsessed lisps. Powerful type system, but less stodgy than Haskell. Terse, but fancier than Python. Plus access to rich and well-documented libraries by virtue of the JVM.
Definitely, an interesting idea. I do a ton of follow-up emailing and it's crucial because because the first email often falls through the cracks. Plus, dealing with several different follow-up tabs on my gmail isn't nearly as efficient and Followupthen. My only concern is that it wouldn't be as easy for me to get an overview of my current email situation if I didn't have everything tabbed.
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Web servers still count as backend. This is not a lack of talent problem.
I can't speak for amazon back in '10 as we've only recently adopted the system, but I assure you this isn't the case nowadays.

Launching an instance takes < 30 seconds and is a matter of a few clicks, the author of this post chose to use an external AMI which makes things a bit trickier and entails a few extra steps.
When you say "interesting", do you mean that in a way that mocks Zeilberger, or is sympathetic to him?
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There are two things you're missing.

First, Amazon has studiously avoided any effort to collect state sales tax. They use a variety of clever dodges to raise doubt that their design and development shops in CA amount to a business presence in CA. The "affiliates" program, recently shut in CA, was another such dodge. Same with the distribution centers being a "separate" company.

Then, when the state decides to go ahead with collecting something that is theirs to collect, Amazon tries to deflect it by raising a totally different matter (jobs in the state). The fact that they're not arguing their sales tax case directly, but threatening to pull jobs, is another aspect of the case you're missing.

I don't see how this is "win-win".

Here's a summary of the TX situation:

http://www.internetretailer.com/2011/05/16/texas-moves-ahead...

Featuring this choice quote which is replete with doublethink:

"We're committed to growth in Tennessee because the people here have demonstrated their commitment to Amazon jobs and investment," says Dave Clark, vice president of Amazon North America Operations.
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By turning off Optimus in BIOS I was able to get main graphics working in my work laptop, but there seems to be absolutely no way to enable external monitors for now. If you can just get normal Intel graphics, you'll save yourself a lot of trouble.
I am, apparently, off by an order of magnitude. The streaming API gives you more like a million tweets per day.

So this size of corpus would take you a couple of weeks to acquire if you watch the stream yourself. Which is still apparently not much longer than the java downloader takes.
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Exactly. Texas called Amazon's bluff. Amazon folded.
On the other hand to make a huge stink about a 400 line script that is poorly designed and takes advantage of none of the APIs provided by app engine to make things preferment like back end instances or task queues is a little disingenuous.
fadeyev, your first example is a little misleading. Only Safari 3-4 required the border-radius syntax to be declared individually. So really this is how it goes:

/* these two lines for saf 3-4 support */
-webkit-border-top-left-radius: 5px;
-webkit-border-top-right-radius: 5px;

/* all you need for Saf5, Chrome, Op, FF1+, IE9 */
-moz-border-radius: 5px 5px 0 0;
border-radius: 5px 5px 0 0;

That said, I like the project. Just clarifying this. :)

EDIT: given the spec'd shorthand syntax, your shorthand for unique corners seems to conflict `(5px, 0, 0, 5px)`. I'd suggest changing that.
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I had the exact same experience (with http://www.rrrather.com/) last night!
I've been developing for app engine since 2008 when it came out and absolutely love it. The price changes are a result of turning a successful and massively growing product into a profitable one a la search, youtube, etc... Google should be praised for this. The changes in price also accompany an SLA that guarantee developers will receive three years notice before a breaking API change or service shut down.

The SSL problem is a limitation in some browsers that causes the type of certificates that GAE needs to use a CNAME, not IP, based routing to display huge warnings.
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To make it simple and concise, which is a better choise for a programmer experienced with C-like languages (PHP, C, Java) to start learning and (of course) using? Easy to learn, easy to work with, great support and a stupid amount of free libraries for any purpose.
Perl magic reduces to a bunch of edge cases and special rules that lack any form of cohesion.

I can think of two general philosophical premises which underlie most of those special rules in Perl: implicit variables and context. Most tutorials and books explain them poorly, which is why so many people never understand them.
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> my fear is

> We will need to wait and see

Wait and see. Whatever was released under the GPL will stay free. Much like MySQL, nobody will be able to kill OpenFoam. You may need to further refine it yourself in the future, if SGI decides to make the next release closed, or even rename it, if they decide to assert trademark rights, but that's not the end of the world.
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Banner ad advertising in general, facebook or in the future is even going to get hotter as more and more businesses go online. But as a small business owner, how do you know what type of banner design is more effective than another? Although there are many elements that go into banner ad design, there are some general rules and guidelines that even as a small business marketer you should know and can use to increase the effectiveness of your banner.
When you say you "can express my ideas in code faster in Scala than [you] can in any other language", I'd love to see you expand on this. Why is it more productive for you than say, F#, or Haskell, or Python, or Clojure?

I don't say this to dispute your findings -- as someone potentially interested in learning Scala, I'm genuinely interested in any specifics you can provide. Thanks!
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You could also move to Django-nonrel, but I know - it's a lot of trouble. Like I said, I am exploring.
Interesting. We want to go for LA first because: 1) we know the market 2) no real competitors (not even PayPal). But now that I hear this from someone else, it's something we'll keep in mind, thanks!
Wait, SGI is still in business?
I couldn't agree with you more; it doesn't take millions to build an innovative product that actually helps people. Of course you'll run into hugely successful companies like Gilt that require significant upfront capital, but no real innovation is going on there. Yes they have a great business model and great execution going on, but if your mindset is that you need millions to go after a big idea, you're probably thinking the wrong way.
Not every startup which seems to have a limited first product goes on to do great things.

But of the startups which have gone on to do great things, many have had limited first products.

Therefore, it's not much of a commentary on a new startup to say their first product is limited, because you don't know where they're headed. It's better to focus on whether the first product is good at what it does and makes people happy.
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I don't think it's very likely that Apple will sell two devices with (significantly) different screen sizes and exactly the same UI.

They would either increase the size or stick to it, not do both at the same time (at least if the UI remains as unflexible as it is).
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I was coming here to post exactly this for small business...

Something that when I get an email receipt in gmail I can forward to my unique address (or filter in gmail).

I get Canada Post emails that are such a pain in the ass to do accounting for, but even something like monthly saas emails would be great to forward and it detect amount, taxes paid, category, etc. (and let me email to that address in the way this site does as well)

Here's at least two people who want it, who's going to build it? ;-)
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I remember my roommate going out and buying Windows 95 on release day (possibly even at midnight). Since then, my experience matches yours, but I'd be interested in seeing some numbers.
So it looks like 'Depression' is on the school schedule (see the spikes down for winter break, the heavy correlation with academic topics)
https://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=depression&...

I wonder how much is psychology research, and how much is side effects of school?

Some of the coincident correlations are really funny.
https://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=depression&...

It looks like OS X Lion had an unofficial mascot! (or the movie promotion timeline matched the lion hype buildup)
The new AWS console is super easy to use. I've never played with Rackspace Cloud but it takes about 2 minutes to provision a new server on EC2 these days.
...or "person trusts life to tested hardware", but that would be rather run of the mill, much like this video.
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GMail also has a "fancy stars" lab plugin that makes flagging mails that need follow-up very easy. The advantage to your approach, admittedly, is that it works in any email client, not just GMail's web app.
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How much of this is that the company was hugely influenced by the founder? Steve Jobs was famous for making sure all the machines at the NeXT factory were painted the same color and that no third party logs were displayed. A certain kind of OCD employee is attracted to that attention to detail and will succeed and advance within the company. Jeff Bezos is famous for the door desk at Amazon and creating a frugal company culture. Both companies are wildly successful but it seems like Bezos would make a horrible Apple CEO and I suspect that a building full of door desks would be amazingly crass to Steve Jobs. Neither is one is better, they are both successful, but I think they attract and utilize different talents. I've often wondered if Balmer's time at the top of Microsoft has been hampered by not being a coder.
Something like this, plus or minus English chat-slang:

(EDIT: dangit, I forgot that HN chops up linebreaks. hold on)
(DOUBLE-EDIT: Text file from my Dropbox: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9485376/chattranslation.txt)
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The last thing I want to do is show up for an interview and make a complete fool of myself.

Do this now so you know where you are, instead of finding it years from now when being interviewed for a real job. The sooner the better.
Monads are definitely not the ultimate imperative style. I love Haskell, but once you use too much IO or Reader/Writer or anything like that everything gets messy and ugly.

Imperative style really benefits from loops and also several design patterns that really don't work or exist in monads.
Sort of. Rackable bought SGI the last time SGI went into Chapter 11 bankruptcy, then announced that they (Rackable) would start using the SGI moniker.
It seems to me this is not blackmail, but rather a perfect analogue to The Prisoner's Dilemma in game theory.

The fact that Amazon is posturing is inconsequential; the State is doing the same thing, and it doesn't really change the core question.
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EDIT: I don't understand the downvote. It was just a question.
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Here's a link to the announcement which has more details, and which doesn't appear to be linked in this blog post.

http://www.sgi.com/company_info/newsroom/press_releases/2011...
Hehe, sorry.
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I found this account interesting. At some points in my life I would spend eight hours a day programming at my day job, then spend most of the evening programming on my own projects. It seems like I've never had a problem with burnout.

However, I've also noticed that I can have a lazy streak. I've been in positions where I'm working on an open source project with an upcoming release deadline. I know there's a bunch of stuff I should really be doing to make the deadline, but my inner self rebels and I watch a movie or read HN instead.

This has made me wonder if my "lazy streak" is actually functioning as an effective protection against burnout. I've seen this laziness in other areas of my life as well, such as school and even at work. I used to feel guilty about it, but I don't really think that way any more. Now I feel that it actually helps keep my longer term productivity up.

Now all of this is based on very subjective feelings. It would be pretty hard to prove anything conclusive either way. I don't know what makes me be this way or if/how it could be learned by someone else who is prone to burnout. But I do believe it's worth thinking about.
Desirable? Feasible?
I seriously doubt that. One AWS instance can run multiple instances of your web app. On GAE you're going to pay about $40/month for each of those instances!
How is it not 'computing'? The iPad runs programs, with
threads, and stacks, and filehandles pointing to files. It
runs what is basically Unix, fer chrissakes!

Your dodging the issue. Can I do general purpose computing with an iPad? Can I run arbitrary code and programs provided I can compile them? No, I can't. Ergo, it isn't a computer.

If people take offense in me calling the iPad (and similar devices) 'toys', then I apologize - as I said, I actually like the concept of tablets. They are communication devices with the ability to run specific programs. Still doesn't make them computers, though, and much less are they the "future of computing".
Comparing Scala to Java is not the point. You should compare it to Clojure, ABCL, or Groovy.
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It's actually being built. Check out http://onereceipt.com/ once they open.
I've yet to run my own company, but I have been in many leadership rolls throughout my young life and one thing that I think all great leaders have is their ability to connect with people. Whether it be the the quite guy in the corner, the angry customer, or the hotshot who thinks he invented the wheel. Great leaders demand respect but they also understand the power of giving respect. Obviously Steve Jobs knew what his customers wanted even before they did, but after reading this post I realize that what made Steve such an incredible leader for Apple was the passion and dedication he brought to his job each day. Whether it be pushing innovation or connecting with his employees. My respect for Steve Jobs only grows.
Google historically splits off their "front end" which is dealing with messages from the internet and their "back end" which is processing what those messages want to do. It was briefly described in the original search paper they presented.

Of necessity, most machines that Google runs have 'private' (as in not directly addressable) addresses. This is how it seems that everyone runs things when they get above a certain number of servers.

Thirdly because one can assume that 'attacks' (whether they depend on XSS, overflows, or what not) are coming from the Interwebz its prudent to present the smallest possible attack surface on a machine which is being fed internet stuff. As you can imagine, those security constraints make for uncomfortable restrictions on what you can do in the 'front end', so a machine that is 'front end' has a different set of security constraints than a machine that is 'back end' (they are still constraints there of course but having gone through the filter of the front end machine which has greatly attenuated the possible exploit vectors).

I believe it is this armored 'front end' resource which is the scarce resource, but again, I've been gone over a year and things change quickly inside the 'plex.
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I heard, more and more such features get unlocked when you get more karma. Thanks for making it clear about down vote stuff.
This is really nice. Simple. Could you make one for parents of infants and toddlers? :)