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Customers were upset about the pricing changes then, but fervor has picked up in intensity lately because the new App Engine model goes into effect later this month.

No, the fervor picked up in intensity because they only now gave us the new metrics, and the price of them, and they are fucking insane.
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Then realize you and your peers potential and pull a SterlingCooperDraperPrice.

Realize that the talent is you, not the company, gather everyone up and walk out with everything of value Aol has left. Then build something great.

Its what I'd do if I had access to a pool of great engineering talent.
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From parent article:
>That’s why it’s so exciting to see our designs being adopted by other browser makers.

Is this designer claiming the design is a Mozilla original and not essentially exactly what's been a UI design in the iPad since release? Or am I reading too much into this?
It would be interesting to have a chat room called /nearby/, so can easily bored people to chat with.
To be fair, it's easier to commit to a project on Github. There's an 'edit' button, which lets you make changes inline on the website.
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Good old fashioned bait and switch, my friend. Never gonna slide that by these people. Not a chance.
Five years ago I was at HOPE Number Six and Michael Hart was the Saturday keynote speaker, giving a talk on his work at Project Gutenberg. I didn't know very much about it, but I recognized the name. There were Project Gutenberg discs floating around the conference so I snagged one and had a look.

I don't really remember anything specific from the talk, but I remember it was inspiring. It was called "Using eBooks to Break Down the Bars of Ignorance and Illiteracy". There's audio of the talk online, and I think I need to hear it again.

The next day was the last day of the conference, and as was usual Jello Biafra was the getting far less attention than the other keynote speakers. They'd closed off the back part of the main hall, a hall which had been filled to capacity and then some for Michael, and some of us were tossing around beach balls. I pounded one particularly hard and hit some guy in the back of the head with it. When he turned around I recognized Michael. I don't think he was too happy with me in that moment.

With the eloquence that only a twenty year old can muster, I stuck my hand out and said "I love your work. It's fucking absurd." That's about the highest compliment I can give a person, and I'm glad to see that Shaw quote in the obituary. It says what I was awkwardly trying to express.

The tension drained out of the situation, and he shook my hand before turning back to his companion and returning to his conversation. I went back to playing with beach balls.

I admire what Michael built, and I admire how he did it. Project Gutenberg was slow but steady, and will continue past his death. I can only aspire to leaving that kind of a legacy.

Goodbye Michael. I loved your work. It's fucking absurd.
Looks good! Hope it supports AirPlay :)
I think the point is that healthcare costs can't be the cause, because they are just a symptom of a broken healthcare market. The actual cost of medical supplies and doctor salaries isn't astronomical, but the price that employers and patients pay is. That disconnect, due to a lack of a sufficient combination of market forces and regulation, is what's bankrupting the country. Saying that healthcare costs are the problem is stopping short, and puts the attention where it can't actually fix things.
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AdBlock is a personal decision and only affects what you see.

.xxx-blocking is likely to take the form of censorship and will make it easier for the censors to affect what other people see.
Is HN still HN?
This is really not true. They fudge numbers.

Edit: Apparently saying something factual gets downvotes at HN nowadays, so let me add some sources.

http://www.compete.com/resources/methodology/

http://aws.amazon.com/awis/faqs/#Where_does_Alexa_get_the_tr...

http://www.quora.com/Where-does-Compete-get-its-data-from

http://wackao.com/which-is-more-accurate-alexa-rank-or-compe...

http://www.bnet.com/blog/technology-business/comscore-money-...

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Unless the person at the top is loaning his money, then inflation is distributing downwards.
Imagine if he simply just "stuck around."

=> Maybe Apple would not be what it is now?
I suspect what he meant is that when GAE spins up a new instance of your app, it will try to locate it on a different server.

This is a natural way to prevent hot instances from overwhelming a single box in the cluster.
I think they had a pretty nice long beta and many YN users participated. I know my programmer showed me this a few months back and was super excited about it.

So, now that it's public everyone wants to rave about it. Makes sense.
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I never said Apple Oracle or Microsoft are not evil but they never did either. Google is hypocrite here claiming to do no evil while suing others through a partner.
The goal of an economy should be to produce as much as possible given the available resources. The goal of money should be to facilitate this happening. Money in itself is not a resource of an economy, it is a tool used to lubricate transactions.
I've been a long time user of Soekris boards & cheap x86 boxes:

http://soekris.com/

They've just come out with their first Atom based system; it's been 486 class (Amd Elan) and 586 class (Amd Geode) processors until now.
Git appears to be fast becoming the standard DVCS.

Whenever I read a statement about popularity of technology, the first thing I do is check the job ratios:

http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=cvs%2C+subversion%2C+git&#...

Git has been picking up speed, but Subversion seems to be (nearly) matching its growth. This makes me feel slightly less bad that all my personal projects are checked into Subversion on Dreamhost. :-)
So that's how you justify Google's actions? By play of words?
"Think of the psychological effect of having to CONSTANTLY lower your prices on your goods. At some point, you'll hang yourself. You want to charge more, not less. It is absolutely depressing and has a real effect."

This is not a big deal and people adapt to what provides the maximum real profit. You're only going to get depressed if you're used to the old trend of ever increasing prices.
This makes me think of 'Daemon' by Daniel Suarez.
> or some other publication would fill its place.

That's what is and has been desirable for a long time.
It's not just the wild swings; it's the systematic tendency towards deflation [mild or otherwise] inherent in Bitcoin: a closed Bitcoin economy reaches zero deflation only where population and productivity growth is zero.

Mild deflation is indistinguishable from mild inflation to a rational investor only where he expects said mild deflation to be temporary, offering him positive average returns on long term investments.
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I assume Mark is refering to the DigiNotar hack (and earlier Comodo ones) and the ensuing shit-storm which showed what an awful security model the current CA/certificate system really is.
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People are not all going to hold on to it and not spend. Some people are going to feel that due to hoarding, it won't become a currency, and hence it's not a good investment, and will be more likely to spend.
For those that use C# or Javascript, there are the Reactive Extensions here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/data/gg577609
I disagree.

Your belief that "new jobs take their place" will only remains true so long as increases in demand can keep pace with productivity: Sure, there's more demand out there in the developing world, but demand is finite in a way that productivity increases are not.

If we're not turning that particular corner today, we will someday; and from that point forth, there will be an inexorable decline in employment.

What happens then?
I'm finding myself really interested in color spaces recently.

Maybe you forgot to title this "I like Amazon Web Services, not App Engine"?
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Just wait until you want some server sided logic and you screwed the pooch because instead of actually sitting down and learning doing some backend code (Sinatra/Node + psql/redis) like pragmatic software engineers (the opposite being regular code monkies) you ended up learning and depending on their services.
But this contradicts itself. If it makes it a lousy currency, then people wouldn't expect its value to rise, and hence would have an incentive to spend it, hence it would be a good currency and its value would rise.
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In my eyes, Google is just a Microsoft wannabe.

That said, I do not think their current actions are in any way evil or immoral. In fact I would lose faith in Android if they weren't doing this.
About your first point, it's a bit surprising seeing someone on HN saying that.

I'm sure we can agree that free software (as in freedom) is also made for free (as in free beer) and it's on average of good quality, if not better, compared to proprietary software.

About not downloading music since you are not interested, well, I admit you have a good point.

Personally it's been a while since I downloaded music last, so I'll make an example about movies.

I download a movie, watch it, don't like it, never watch it again, delete it from my hard drive. How can I do this if I paid for a movie? Renting? Theater? Yes, that could work.

The important thing, IMHO, is re-balancing the power between the entertainment industries and the consumers.

--

About your last point, see the point about free software.

But maybe it's just me. Maybe I don't see a problem in sharing music because it's not a source of income for me. But then I think about professionals like NIN or Radiohead who let people download their album and still manage not not to starve...

My point is still that it's the revenue scheme that needs to change. If a business is not profitable because of technological changes, it needs to adapt or die. Or, as of today, we would have to listen just to live music, because the performers of the time thought that recording music was stealing.
True. I could have lived with instance based pricing if it was actually reasonable. But its a real shame, because resource-based pricing really attracted me to the platform. Now they've just thrown in the towel. I'd rather they added metrics (and costs) for the missing resources (which appears to be RAM) than just give up and say "instances". Now we have to guess which resource we are over-using to cause another instance to start up.
Boring, really? What excites you about tech news is not their intrinsic technological value (as in "whoa, nice hack"), but soap-opera-married-reality-show-like drama announcements? (as in "X said Y about Z. OMG, OMG. What will Z say back? stay tuned")

Then, sir, I respectfully disagree.
That doesn't change the fact that unlike Amazon, Google is not in the business of selling tools to developers; with that in mind it is impressive what they do for developers despite that.
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After reading the article above as well as TechCrunch the past few days, does anyone have another link or two detailing AOL's point of view in all of this? Arrington branded this as needing journalistic independence, and per the linked article, it seems to be bad execution of whatever it was AOL was trying to do. Drama and secret motivations aside, anyone give credibility to Arrington's call for journalistic independence of TC and what I'm perceiving of his belief that one can still be called a 'journalist' if you're transparent enough about what you're doing outside of the journalism job? To take a quote from one of the people he interviewed at TC Disrupt in NY, "transparency is the new objectivity" - any thoughts?
That's it — Windows comes with a crappy bitmap Helvetica, and most Linux distributions are even worse because X includes an abysmally bad tiny raster one. Macs ship with a good one, and Adobe Creative Suite installers usually bundle one which is how lots of designers never notice the problem on Windows.

Basically, you should never specify 'Helvetica' anywhere in a font declaration. Specify 'Helvetica Neue', the pretty close 'Microsoft Sans Serif', or gasp Arial — it's not actually worse in any way, despite all the wankery.
Actually, I found palettes (plural) of them at Costco this afternoon. $65.
Nice. I've actually been working on this. Work in progress: http://content.screencast.com/users/shawnpresser/folders/Jin...
For fun, the figure should open eyes after a minute so of viewing =)
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I guess a i386 chroot would be too ressouce intensive for your case?
To add further evidence toward your argument, consider also the alternative name, "svn":

http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=cvs%2C+subversion%2C+svn%2...

The popularity would actually be the sum of both.
I'm guessing this drama wouldn't have occurred if happened to anyone other than Arrington.
Git only prevents switching branches if the act of switching branches would modify the files you have uncommitted changes to. In the case of fr0sty's suggestion, the new branch cannot have any changes because it's being created from the current HEAD. But even if you're switching to a pre-existing branch, it may still work depending on what files git will need to touch.

In other words, no harm in trying the `git checkout other_branch` first, and only stashing if that fails.
Later he makes the same mistake, and then proceeds to refactor the function into private helper methods with a public interface.

(I'm assuming/hoping he's finding the feedback productive.)
Oh, just as an aside for the record I'm an atheist.
I was pretty sure, but I never know when I've missed some huge piece of functionality in a program. Thanks for the explanation.
You're right, I was rude.
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Every now and again you see a post that truly feels like hacker news. This is one of those posts.
Their benchmarks seem a little odd. They claim an 11x speed improvement, compared to using half as many computers three years ago. But you'd expect roughly an order of magnitude improvement anyway, just due to Moore's law.

I'd be really curious to see what part of the speedup is due to software optimizations, i.e., compare the 2011 software with the 2008 software on identical hardware.
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Is it just me that doesn't grok any argument at all here; there are many criticisms that could be levelled at Google but this apples and oranges comparison is a million miles wide of the mark

Google wants the best engineers to work for them; I'm pretty sure the same applies to Amazon. They're not going to let you near the bottom of the AWS stack without you proving that you're towards the extreme of the smart side of the bell curve and signing an employment contract with them.

Amazon provides its platform to anyone that wants to develop on it: last time I checked there was no obstacle in the way of signing up for AppEngine, using Google's many APIs to build a sexy looking searchable dynamic local social mobile website which you can then distribute via their webstore, or as a plugin for their browser or app on their mobile operating system. Maps are really cool and useful for that sort of thing. Perhaps you'd like to borrow their semantic matching technology and bidding platform to acquire some customers or make a little money on AdSense; that's not too difficult either and plenty of people have made millions on the back of both. Just want to make your mark on the web? There are many neat little things your average web-savvy teenager can get creative with like their web fonts. Their free code hosting and tutorials go a lot further than just helping you use Google services more effectively. Show me a successful online startup which has never used anything from Google and I'll show you a liar.

But yeah, web hosting is a little further from Google's core business than Amazon's or Rackspace's. Does that make them elitist and irrelevant? Tell that to the millions of people running searches every day with less barrier to overcome than buying a book from Amazon
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Typically they are only enforceable if you leave, or sign some sort of severance package, if it can be enforced at all.

It's very doubtful it can be enforced if you're fired.
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I'm going to speculate that all instances reserve a fixed amount of RAM irrespective of actual heap usage. I can't speak authoritatively about GAE, but this is how I would design the system.

The problem is that while your instance may only use 30MB now, it could grow to 100MB in an instant without warning. Tipping a box into swap would effectively crash all instances present. Oversubscribing RAM is a dangerous game, and I suspect Google doesn't try to play it - they have enough trouble debugging performance issues as it is.

So basically, an instance represents a fixed about of RAM. Instance-hours and RAM-hours are the same.
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I think the most impressive stat is a little later in the presentation. Only ~0.001% of deployments actually cause an outage.

Anyone can create a system that generates a lot of deployments, but what really matters is that you can complete all of those deployments safely. Of course, that is still ~0.001% too many outages due to deployments and we are working hard to make that number zero.
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I've struggled with helping others learn git as well; you can see some of my thinking at (http://think-like-a-git.heroku.com/#1) and (http://confreaks.net/videos/612-cascadiaruby2011-think-like-...). Currently working on a longish standalone website for those who (like me) can't stand to slow down enough to sit through an entire 20-minute video. ;>
Not necessarily. Some entries might refer to both but be in the same entry. So the correct way to calculate totals would be `subversion + svn - (subersion and svn)`
Further... that's what the article was suggesting, too, although without the totalitarian overtones: "We start by accepting that food and shelter are basic human rights."
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I make daily use of GitX for visualizing the state of a repo, and it's got a pretty nice UI for building commits as well. (It's Mac-only, though.) Apparently there are several forks that have added new functionality on top of the version I use, but I'm comfortable enough at the command line now that I haven't bothered checking any of them out.
Here are two other great talks by one of my friends at Amazon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UL2WDcNu_3A

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coNDCIMH8bk
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Elite engineers. Elite schools. Elite company. How very
elitist.

This whole "Google is elitist" meme is silly. They hired me as an SRE, and yet I didn't attend high school, went to a state college, and had something like a 3.2 GPA.

Stop being so afraid of failure that you never try to succeed.
It is not unhealthy or insensitive (which is what "morbid" means) to know cause of death.

Knowing cause of death has value for public discussion about policy, health, and medicine. Even if it's something like suicide or AIDS, we'll know that we should be paying more attention to preventing those.

IMDB and Wikipedia always list cause of death when it's known. Are they morbid too?

The obituary writer is free to write it any way he wants, but you seem to be arguing that it's wrong to include the cause of death. The reason we're reading this particular obituary at all is because we want to know more about the person. How is a list of surviving relatives, his home town, or age any more relevant or important to mention than cause of death?
Ahh, but they only invest in new enterprises that they feel are likely to significantly out-perform the prevailing real interest rate (risk free rate of return).

Significant deflation raises the bar, by putting a floor under the risk free rate of return.
On PPC it does not produce an exception. Inspection of the assembler reveals, in part:

cmpwi cr7,r0,0
beq cr7,L5
lwz r2,60(r30)
lwz r0,56(r30)
divw r2,r2,r0 ; ordinary integer divide
stw r2,72(r30) ; store the quotient
b L7
L5:
li r0,0 ; else load 0
stw r0,72(r30) ; store the 0

The following thread has more about the reason PPC does not raise exceptions for these overflows:

http://fixunix.com/embedded/341544-divide-zero-does-not-cras...

But they're only thinking about division by 0, not by -1.
Yeah, it does, and thanks for taking the time to point me at something a little meatier than slides.

I guess it's just hard to imagine that kind of situation when I'm on a two man web dev team that pushes out into the testing server 10-20 times a day and to production once a week, if that.