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I use rackspace and its very cool. Rackspace is fast and simple, and is also cheap. Their server runs fast, and smoothly. AWS is sometimes too complicated, lots of config, lots of choices, lots of weird price changes -- I am talk about the recent spot instances weird pricing fluctuations, and other wierd episodes they have had. Unless you know exactly what you are doing scaling in AWS will take more time and effort -- Unless you are Zynga, and you need a stupid amount of server which almost noone of the server providers except amazon have, or you dont want to deal with relational db scaling problems, or other of the expensive and specific service that amazon offers I dont see why complicate things in the "building stage". AWS is too complex for my use cases, and my software is usually transparent to the server where he is running, so I can always port my code. Rackspace API is stable and it talks JSON, which is cool because my frontend and backend talks javascript.

I guess this question is too open... the answer will always be, depends on what you are building..., and you amount of experience on the field... In my case several 8gb rackspace servers with a cost of 10 dollars a day seems to work well for collecting and crunching gigabytes of data.
Customers tend to get pissed off when they realize they've been lied to. I think his anger is justified.
If you're targeting beginners, then I would put more emphasis on videos than I did in my comment above, but I would still not completely replace the written docs with them. Also, the written docs should probably contain step-by-step instructions for common tasks, with screenshots (basically like the video version would be but not a video).

Of course, you may not have the time/resources to do all that so you will have to decide whats most valuable for your customers. Ideally, I'd say written docs hopefully with screenshots and at least one video, if you can.
that is pretty much what google is doing with the chromebook. a local terminal with not much state storage, keeping all of the important data in the cloud. they're trying to do the same thing with android (which is why the google nexus phones keep coming out with such small amounts of flash storage).

mobile devices are powerful enough and desktops/laptops are cheap enough now that the computation can be done locally, with the data still being stored on a central server. a decade or two ago, the computation was also done on the servers. microsoft did it with windows terminal server, sun did it with the ray (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Ray), but the concept was basically like vnc'ing into a central server and having your entire session preserved, no matter where you logged in from.

and of course, before graphical desktops were big, unix and dumb terminals did the same thing. you could use a vt100 connected to a modem from anywhere, run 'screen -r' and restore your saved session to access all of your applications, data, and email stored on the server.
It's stupid that my crappy old LG phone had an "Alarms Only" mode, but modern smartphones don't. I never replaced my old alarm clock when it stopped working, because I just used the alarm mode on my phone.

Now, my new smartphone doesn't have that feature and there's no way to use it to wake me up in the morning without it also making sounds when my uncle in another timezone forwards me a hilarious text message at 3 am.

The only workaround is to individually set every sound event to silent and then turn off vibrate, which is kind of ridiculous, especially when I want the phone to make sounds again the next day.
Sigh. I spent way too much time picking these particular certs and they've gone and messed it up. :)

The cross-root cert should work, but you need to make sure it's presented in the right order, I think.

FWIW, my latest RapidSSL-through-Namecheap certs were issued by:

issuer=/C=US/O=Equifax/OU=Equifax Secure Certificate Authority

And that's the "good"/trusted CA. I'm not sure when they made the switch, but I only got this cert issued a couple of months ago.

FWIW, we also support Docomo phones, and that is a huge pain in the ass. The only CA that works there is:

i:/C=US/O=VeriSign, Inc./OU=Class 3 Public Primary Certification Authority

If you don't need to support really old mobile devices, the best certs going are, IMHO, Digicert. They get chained all the way back to Entrust:

1 s:/C=US/O=DigiCert Inc/OU=www.digicert.com/CN=DigiCert High Assurance EV CA-1
i:/C=US/O=DigiCert Inc/OU=www.digicert.com/CN=DigiCert High Assurance EV Root CA
2 s:/C=US/O=DigiCert Inc/OU=www.digicert.com/CN=DigiCert High Assurance EV Root CA
i:/C=US/O=Entrust.net/OU=www.entrust.net/CPS incorp. by ref. (limits liab.)/OU=(c) 1999 Entrust.net Limited/CN=Entrust.net Secure Server Certification Authority

And the company has some of the best customer service going anywhere.
What day?
There are two sides of this: the law, and what is fair. The law is what matters for practical purposes but you are objecting on the basis of fairness. I can dig that, but I disagree.

Looking at this from the perspective of what I personally feel is fair:

My product is TapTyping. My product has been the only product on the market called TapTyping for two years.

It seems likely that any new product that came on the market named TapTyping would be in some way similar to my existing product.*

If new product also called TapTyping came along that was in some way similar to my existing product, this product would benefit from the name recognition and mind share my existing product at my existing product's expense. That would not be fair.

And finally: Domain names are a mechanism to apply a label to a resource in such a way that the when a person uses that label to access a particular resource, that person gets the resource that they were expecting. At least that's the ideal, right?

So the way I see it, no other resource on the internet is currently being accessed with the label TapTyping and all new resources that potentially could appear on the internet using this label would infringe on my existing product.

So yes: I feel entitled to the domain.

I'd love to try to see it from your perspective. How do you see it?

* Sure: someone could come out with TapTyping lawn care and in this case I wouldn't object. But in the case of this particular name it doesn't seem likely.
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If you don't need to support really old mobile devices, the best certs going are, IMHO, Digicert. They get chained all the way back to Entrust:

Not only that, they check your installed cert after you buy it and email you if you installed it incorrectly: http://www.digicert.com/help/
Guess he's building the next Google which is the next Microsoft anyway.
Feel like science-fiction to anyone else?
"there's real harm done"

Not really. Having been a low-level employee on several of these sinking ships in the past few years, the pattern is despicably predictable. Everyone who works for a startup knows the game they are playing. Many of the experienced ones will even see the writing on the wall and bail early. The laid off employees have no trouble finding their next job. Just like in Vegas, there's always another game starting up in Silicon Valley.

The VPs plan for failure going in. They may lose some money, but they'll cover the loses with some of their other investments. They play the odds.

I think the only real harm is to the state of California when hundreds of people are suddenly on unemployment for a month or two between jobs.
Wasn't that the point of the article? Most people would avoid creating something like Stripe because of all the schleps.
One obvious solution is to have, say, an extra flavor of mute. Say a soft mute and a hard mute, where soft works like the current iOS mute and a hard mute which is a true absolute mute. And give the user a physical switch or in-software toggle between them.

Next problem.
That's definitely not the use case I would imagine for the Mute switch.

The shared office situation should be handled by setting the phone into a "Vibrate only" mode. On "Mute" mode, my phone doesn't even vibrate, and that's exactly what I expect to happen.
All the literature I've read for bodybuilding says your reps should be in the 8 to 12 range, and higher reps leads to more muscle endurance without much muscle growth.
I consider myself to be a pretty advanced user, I program for Apple platforms professionally, I've had an iPhone for years, and before I read this article I had no idea that the alarm didn't respect the mute switch. Makes me extremely grateful that I don't use the built-in alarm. When I flip the mute switch, it's because I don't want the phone to make any noise. An exception for music/movies makes since, because I'm requesting it right then and there. An exception for alarms makes no sense to me, as it's something you set previously and, as the unfortunate concert-goer experienced, something you may have forgotten.

That switch on the phone has one purpose in life: to keep my phone quiet when I'm in a situation where I don't want it to make noise. Alarms really should not override that.
You may as well repeatedly shoot yourself in the face for all the good cleaning up code will do. It's indented like a train-wreck because someone wanted it that way and they will likely fight you tooth and nail to keep it as it is.
They may be a stopgap feature right now, but they can evolve. Every successful company starts by filling a niche, and then keep expanding such niche till it reaches its critical mass.
That's only a solution if you know about the behavior in advance. Unless somebody told you, there's no reason to expect that the mute switch won't silence the alarm.
But that's exactly the point of the article. An alarm clock is near useless as well (for waking up anyway, that's why I use it) if it's silent just because you told the iPhone to be silent. It'd be disastrous if I accidentally muted my phone, failed to wake up, and missed a morning.

Really, you want a "don't annoy me or people around me" button, but that's context sensitive. A design nobody has been able to implement yet. Apple just made an educated guess at it here.
Not the same though - if a murderer fled the US, the crime was still committed on US soil, by someone in the US at the time, against (presumably) a US resident/citizen. In other words, it's rightfully American business.

The other country would simply be returning the person to the correct jurisdiction.

Note that even this is not clear-cut at all - many countries will refuse extradition even in this case if there is evidence that the person will face the death sentence or torture.

The USA simply doesn't have the right to prosecute crimes abroad, with no relation to the USA whatsoever - whether in defense of its citizenry or its corporations. That's what the whole concept of sovereignty is about!
I started doing crossfit about 3 months ago and absolutely love it.

Being a global and pretty standardised thing there are gyms all around the world you can attend. Despite the language barrier you still know what to do. For instance I am in Tokyo currently and about to go here: http://chikaracrossfit.com/ If I were in Denmark then I’d love to drop in here: http://butcherslab.dk/

Just as being a developer allows you to network globally, crossfit does too.
2009. Note the rise in popularity of JavaScript since then: https://github.com/languages

Also, box plots would provide more useful comparison than medians; box plots can show several quantiles simultaneously. This is almost essential if you don't know anything else about the distribution. Still enjoyed the analysis, though, and I think it's an interesting space for further exploration!
Softlayer and Linode for hosting.

Rackspace Mail for mail.

Why not run your own mail server? Outbound deliverability is a pain. You can't just install an SMTP server package and go -- you need to think about DomainKeys, SPF, DKIM, Sender-ID, monitoring realtime blacklists for your IP, etc. That's a whole job unto itself and is worth paying a couple bucks for someone else to do it.
What does Apple do? Sell computers and smartphones. Everyone is doing it, but they do it differently, which for many people means better.

What does Google do? Web search. Someone else is doing it, but they just do it better.
White House Rejects SOPA
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I've always referred to this as the Angry Monkey effect. Comes up in development a lot.
You don't fool anyone, you are probably going to use Google cache to explore old threads on reddit and boingboing (or maybe i just gave you the idea... sorry?)
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This story originally came to my attention from Yishan's great post on Engineering Management - Process[1]

[1] http://algeri-wong.com/yishan/engineering-management-process...
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It's funny, Rupert Murdoch voicing his opinion against something is pretty much an endorsement of it. He probably knows this, and the fact that he's said anything at all means he has given up support of these two bills.
> Google's management has a fiduciary responsibility to the shareholders to maximize profits.

You need to stop using that word, you don't know what it means. "Fiduciary" has nothing to do with "maximizing profits", corporate executives and directors have no such responsibility. You are perpetuating a dangerous, damaging, and extremely ignorant myth pushed by robber-barons as an excuse for their immoral and unethical behavior.
That's likely worded incorrectly – Dropbox's latest round was that amount but it's unimaginable that Drew took all that money off the table.
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To get more subscribers, I think you ought to be:

- Writing about Japanese candy.
- Making videos about Japanese candy.
- etc.

Doing this will attract people interested in Japanese candy, and will pull in potential and real subscribers. Over the long term I think this could be good. I also think the topic of "Japanese Candy" is big enough for you to write/video about it once or twice a week.

As for the service itself - I think it lends well to word of mouth, or at least it could. People get their candy and share it with others, and those others ask where you got their candy. I was a subscriber for probably 4-5 months, and at least two of my friends signed up because of my word of mouth.

Thing is, all three of us have unsubscribed - and for all three of us, it actually came down to the quality of the candy (or perhaps, it came down to our tastes in candy). I know originally (and maybe still) your thing was about sending people Japanese candy they can't get outside of Japan too easily. That's good and all, but in the end, after a while we all realized the candy itself in terms of quality / taste was hit or miss... and with subscription, you can't have too many misses before someone unsubscribes. I'd say I personally enjoyed the candy I got half the time, so I just unsubscribed because it wasn't worth it.

I think finding candy that people will like rather than candy people find different or original is much more important. I think that's the difference between gaining more subscribers naturally through word of mouth and losing subscribers.

At least, that's my opinion on it. I do hope you start revving sales up again, though. I loved the candy when I loved the candy, and I think it's a good idea, but between myself and friends we unsubscribed because we didn't always love the candy :(
> Technically, search is a feature too. Google seems to be doing alright.

That's because they were able to monetize search enormously through ads. How precisely does Dropbox plan to monetize storage to the same extent?

> If it's such a bad Idea, why did jobs want to buy it?

Strawman. Nobody is saying Dropbox is a bad idea. They are saying it is likely not an idea capable of being an "Apple or Google." Edit: also, a Hacker News reader should be well aware of talent acquisitions.
That looks awesome. Thanks.
> A hacker who goes by the name of 'Yama Tough' threatened Saturday
> to release next week the full source code for Symantec Corp's
> flagship Norton Antivirus software.

Unfortunately, Saturday could not be reached for comment but Friday and Sunday pledged support for the beleaguered day.
And what makes those companies so successful in those areas is that it is very difficult to replicate what they do. It is not as difficult to replicate what Dropbox does, as noted by what your parent poster said.
Really informative. Helped me out a lot. thanks.
One of the general failings of smart people is that they tend to breeze through school without ever trying very hard, and thus lack some of the necessary skills when faced with an arduous problem. This is probably what PG is getting at.
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Why not Google Apps for email, or SES for outbound?
"Reasoning" is being a little generous: I happened to develop a setup which is a duct-taped mishmash of VPSes and external services, and every few months I pay for it with a phone call at 3 AM in the morning (local time) that says something has broken.

These days I'm attempting to move things off of my VPSes where there are good, stable options which don't require huge engineering efforts to use. SendGrid for email was an early, obvious choice. I'll be migrating many of my blogs to WPEngine fairly soon. (I'll write up my rationale for that at length after it happens. They're a client, so take my arguments with a grain of salt, but it became painfully obvious when working with them that it was the right call.)

If I got a do-over on my two main software products I would probably re-write them to use Heroku over self-hosting them on my VPS. It would have avoided ~6 minor service disruptions and ~2 catastrophes in the last year, plus saved me about two weeks of lost billable time. (Mostly lost due to having a very involved migration from Slicehost to Rackspace which went fairly poorly, principally due to failing to invest another few weeks preparing thoroughly for it.)

I can't justify a rewrite of BCC or AR at the moment to migrate to Heroku, though, as they're both multiple weeks of work with high probability of breaking something, and my anticipated costs due to I'm Not Always A Sysadmin But When I Am I Only Fail On The Hard Stuff this year don't quite justify it. (Please, please, nobody buy Rackspace to shut it down. One migration was enough.)
Really an amazing system. Too bad modern computer terminals don't have consoles like that :)
> Really, you want a "don't annoy me or people around me" button, but that's context sensitive. A design nobody has been able to implement yet. Apple just made an educated guess at it here.

My dumbphone pretty much did that in like, 2005 or so: https://s3.amazonaws.com/ns_pixels/blag/old-phone-volume.jpg
Why bother revoking? Get a new cert from someone else for 10$, ditch the old one, done.
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Rackspace is better (SLA-guaranteed reliability and 24x7x365 phone support), and cheaper ($2 per mailbox, no usage based fee).
Do you have a blog/Twitter/whatever you'll be announcing it on? I'd be interested in taking a look at it when you're ready to release it.
I wouldn't really want to count on that; Google tends to guess what common response codes mean. The safest response would probably be to use "503 Service Unavailable" with an error page.
I wonder what the success rate for intercepts really was.
The Seductive Danger Of Half Measures
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I can't remember the last time I used a Norton product. Why is this big news?
I do a lot of app engine at work. I'm aware of most of the sharp corners the platform has, but overall, I think it's a great offering for a wide-variety of applications.

So, when it comes time to host a side project, App Engine is my go to platform these days. There are a few times when I prefer going with EC2, but I like how easy it is to get a project started on app engine, especially when I'm confident that the application will scale should I need it to.
We can boil it down to incentives. Are the incentives (we recognize) strong enough to get us to pay for a membership and go to the gym? Maybe yes. Maybe no. Maybe maybe. The "maybe Maybe" wins the day in most cases. It's no surprise that the gyms are winning out here. Their goal is sales not necessarily our fitness. If they make good coin and facilitate people getting fit then good show. If they make good coin and the customers fail well such is life. Free will is after all free will.

So what can we say for the minority that pay the 30(+) silver pieces and actually make it happen? I say good show! To those who pay and drop off I say keep on; don't give up, go back and try again! Tomorrow is another day. Don't Judas yourself.
I run anyhub.net which runs on two Intel Atom based dedicated servers. I serve about 50 TB of data per month and it costs me exactly $110 each month which I easily make back from Adsense.

The same would cost me tens of thousands on Amazon or other 'cloud' services.
Did you get the email I sent back with ideas? I love what you're doing, but there has to be some community formed around it.
No it wont power itself back on if you actually power it off instead of just turning off the display.
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I'm looking forward to downloading this and having a look through - I often find stuff like this interesting.
I can't remember the last time I used an i[Pod,Pad,Phone], but that doesn't make stories about them unimportant.
New usb key: dropbox on steroid?
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This is technically true. But isn't it a bit pretentious to assume that every unindustrialized nation wants to (or should) "develop" into something more like America?
That sounds about right. Hell, I should be able to drop a phone on my nightstand and have an inductive charger switch it to "do not disturb, except for alarms and calls or urgent messages from certain people". Is it the future yet?

As for this article, there seem to be conflicting expectations. Demanding attention is the point of an alarm, so I for one do not expect "mute" to imply "and cancel all my meeting reminders or let me oversleep". Another comment proposed a theater mode, and maybe that should mean "no noise whatsoever for the next N hours, warn me if it means deferring an alarm".
I agree we've had that problem with our app Denso as well (a video app) - people would complain that videos play but with no sound and almost always it was because people had the device muted.

We eventually shipped an update which ignored the mute setting while video playback.
Reminds me of Joel's post on streamlining a shipping process http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/HowToShipAnything.htm...
Facebook didnt grow much (functionality-wise) other than in number of members. Other than that, most features are exactly the same as in 2007. No wonder; an average programmer could write Facebook core functionality in a matter of few days; the major issue/challange at Facebook is scalling, not programming. Show me other piece of software that is concurrently accessed by hundred million users.
rackspace cloud servers/cloud files & google apps for email
Where do you host?