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I wanted to know what real developers were using. Obviously big companies are using their own hardware but I'm interested specifically on the usage of developers similar to me. I expected more votes for SaaS than VPS/dedicated to be honest.
The one that comes to mind in particular was something that sent email. We wanted to limit emails being sent per email server to each ISP.

We went with: queue per ISP for emails to send out, then each server that could send email to that ISP had its own thread. Each thread would take X emails out of the queue every 10 seconds, send them, then sleep for any leftover time - or not if there isn't any.

Most of the time is spent sleeping or on I/O - the point of threads wasn't for CPU usage, it was because it made everything so simple to implement. The only synchronization issues were taking emails out of the queue and putting them back somewhere if they failed to send.

All of the logic for each thread in its main loop read like a normal, sequential program. I guess you could call this an embarrassingly easy problem, but part of why it's so easy is it maps so easily to threads.
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Yep. Sure did. Hopefully people know what I mean as I can't change it now, only add a new choice and that's not a viable option after this many votes.
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How is this different from any other warez site that has been on the Internet since the mid 90s? They [ninjavideo] were not even hosting the content, just linking to megaupload/wherever, what about filestube.com/library.nu/demonoid/usenet? Anonymous will LOVE to hear about this.
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So you're point is homeschooling couldn't produce this result? This kid was home schooled and he got in at 12.
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2003/demaine-0226.html
"scary concept like 'file system'." I find that somewhat ironic considering it was meant to be intuitive and relate to the real world concept of Document,Files and Folders. But when the real world connection begins to be broken I can see how it becomes scary.
I'm sure there was some restoration, but I thought leaving the yellowed note on the phone with the General's number was a nice touch.

Those machines were pretty darned expensive. They were all taken very good care of. Except for the paper-handling equipment, almost anything that involved opening the cabinet would probably have been done by IBM personnel.

The military was also known for keeping just their ordinary stuff clean. It surely went double for the air defense computers. Top brass from the Pentagon were likely dropping by for a tour on a regular basis.

In the years following WWII as one of the only large industrial nations that had not been bombed to smithereens, the amount of capital the US had to spend on this kind of thing just boggles the imagination.

Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN/FSQ-7 : The AN/FSQ-7 computer contained 55,000 vacuum tubes, occupied 0.5 acres (2,000 m2) of of floor space, weighed 275 tons, and used up to three megawatts of power. The fifty-two AN/FSQ-7s remain the physically largest computers ever built, and will likely hold that record in the future.
That was over my head but it did remind me of my sound system engineer career days (it lasted a week).

All I remember is for some reason odd trans harmonic distortion sounds good but even trans harmonic distortion doesn't.
A sine wave, played with dynamics and interesting rhythms, can be just as valid a musical expression as anything else.
I can see that too. But I can also see somebody like VMWare getting there first--a gigantic, centralized cloud VM repository is not difficult to imagine, and they already have a bunch of technology needed to move a VM from a server to a computer (I think).
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The best definition of noise, I think, is sound that interferes with the transmission of meaning or disrupts the process of interpretation.

It's really that vague, and depends entirely on context and the people and intentions involved. Any definition that attempts to be more precise is certainly going to produce counterexamples. Certainly any definition that tries to define noise in terms of a finite set of identifiable properties of sound is doomed to fail. And, despite the attempts of this article, you most certainly cannot define noise as anything other than tonal music. There are many forms of atonal music, many of which are quite old.
I'd be keen on rackspace if there were a way to painlessly scale instances of an app without being an admin.

Heroku covers this very well.
http://nytm.org/sos/ has what you need: NYC protest at the offices of Sens. Schumer and Gillibrand for their PIPA endorsements.

We want more cities to come on board. Can you help?
Co-located all the way. You have capital expense, but you have hardware perfectly tuned to your application. Yes, it's a distraction from coding, but those at times are very helpful.
Yes, I believe they are both terms for frequency spectrum.
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Idea Feedback Request: Classifieds for your building
Would anyone get any value out of "classifieds for you building" - i.e. a craigslist with location-scope specific to your office or apartment tower?

The premise behind this is that many of us share space with thousands of people every day - most of the stuff I've sold on kijiji/craigslist/wherever I could have easily sold to someone that I could have met in the lobby of my office tower, as opposed to driving all over town, etc.

Anyway, I can't tell if this concept is useful, or useless.

Thoughts?
Early 2007 was before Facebook Apps came out. There was no Farmville, no SuperPoke, no Scrabulous, no Washington Post Social Reader. It was also before Facebook Status Messages (IIRC a reaction to Twitter, which hadn't gained traction yet), before the News Feed (IIRC a reaction to Friendfeed, which wouldn't be founded for another few months), before the Facebook Mobile App (the iPhone was brand new and didn't yet allow 3rd-party apps, Android hadn't come out yet), and the UI was completely different. There was no Facebook Connect or Like button.
http://member.ly looks great. I recently launched http://sockpanda.com, and this would have been great to have when we started out. I wonder whether their choice of payment processor (Amazon) vs. PayPal/Stripe/etc has any effect on conversions. Also I'm curious if anyone has tested whether offering only the set-it-and-forget-it option like candyjapan and sockpanda do (and not having a finite-term subscription options like the member.ly sites) might get the average subscriber to stay on longer (people get used to receiving the items and don't bother to cancel).
This title seems to just be provoking a philosophical ping pong match. Ugh.
Gary McKinnon looks all but set to be deported. It's just an incredibly long process of appeals that has stopped it thus far
What language did you use at Review19?
I have thought of giving rackspace hosted email a try. Did you consider it as an option and discount it for some reason in favor of google apps email?

* also looking at fastmail too.
> You don't want to ignore features of a language just because it might not be entirely clear to someone that is new to the language.

I think this has a lot to do with why perl projects tend to accumulate complexity over their lifetimes. It's not an easy decision to ignore language features, and it's a decision that gets made each time a programmer writes more code, so it's inevitable that in a large program in a language with as many deep features as perl has, some programmer will choose to use each of them. The abundance of advanced features in use in a large project then forms a barrier of entry to a newbie who must understand each of them as he encounters them; while each feature and decision may make the most sense for its context, the preponderance of features means it takes a long time for new contributors to get up to speed.

As to why this is different from Ruby/Python or many other more recent languages: Most popular recent languages are extremely resistant to the addition of any language features. They try to have canonical features that cover many use cases, for example Python's iterators and generators, or Ruby's block syntax. By having only a few options open for developers, new contributors are more likely to immediately grok the code of even large projects. Consider the statement "There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it" from the Zen of Python[1], which is a gentle stab at the Perl motto, "There is more than one way to do it"[2].

[1] http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/
[2] http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ThereIsMoreThanOneWayToDoIt
I found a link to the Harvard graduates’ Gym Pact program: http://www.gym-pact.com/. It’s an iPhone app, and it purports to actually pay you the money paid by those who didn’t go to the gym if you really do go to the gym. Another similar program is the free online service Beeminder at https://www.beeminder.com/. It lets you track anything numeric, such as visits to the gym, and if you fall below the goal you set for yourself a week ago, you get charged money.
The difference between art and randomness is... I think this was already dealt with by John Cage and Jackson Pollock.
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This is not always true on NFS for various reasons too stupid to go into. There are precious few things so stupid that someone has not committed them to an NFS server somewhere, but the retry semantics in the protocol make it generally awkward and it's possible for two mkdirs to both succeed or both fail but in both cases for the directory to exist. See http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org/msg2... and http://stackoverflow.com/questions/185451/quick-and-dirty-wa... . The only things NFS guarantees is that symlink, rename, and open with the O_EXCL flag (and that only in v3), will be atomic.
That's certainly true. If you want to do something that requires 10s of millions of dollars to get off the ground, seed funding is not for you. Car and solar energy companies are great recent examples. Hugely capital intensive, and you'll note the pace of innovation is slower to match...
Don't forget that Heroku/AWS aren't immune to outages themselves. Their major outage last year (due to an AWS/EBS issue) put my app out of commission for ~16 hours (fortunately it was still in a small, private beta).

I've got 6 VPSes and 12 dedicated boxes and have never had an outage that long (self-inflicted or otherwise) in roughly 6 years. Granted, most of my dedicated boxes are managed by Rackspace and cost > $1k/month.

All that to say, I agree with your sentiments for the most part ... I just haven't seen the "prevention" of catastrophic events per say.
http://www.google.com/intl/en/about/products/index.html

Each one of those 50-odd services could be a full-fledged company on its own with a few hundred or even a few thousand employees (in fact, many of them were). I would even bet that as separate companies, they would add up to a lot more than the estimated 20,000 Google employees.
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"500'd! Server messed up."
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Linode, Ubuntu, Nginx, Varnish, Google Apps for mail.

Did the custom mail server with Postfix on Gentoo for a few years. Had the experience. Loved it. Came to realize I should be doing things with tools instead of managing tools, hence current config.
Mostly VPS because when you know what you're doing, SaaS just gets in the way and makes it harder/longer to do simple stuff.
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Yes. Engineering is constraint management. You're constantly trading off one thing for another: speed, flexibility, maintenance, cost, durability, etc. When one thing fails to be a relevant constraint, it's ok to focus on the other things that are of more immediate concern.
Really? Works fine for me...what's your Twitter name?
One advantage taken from the readme:

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About how much can you make on adsense with a web app like yours?
the link to Marco's article is broken in the article, the correct one is http://www.peereboom.us/assl/assl/html/openssl.html
From a quick look at the source, WhitespaceBot already excludes Markdown files:

banned = ['.git', '.py', '.yaml', '.patch', '.hs', '.occ', '.md', '.markdown', '.mdown']
You and "many other people" is not everyone. You're a smart, accomplished guy in your early 40s (whose work wrt Lucene I'm studying right now for a Clojure application). Maybe you've lucked out and have always just been surrounded by smart, motivated people with superb powers of critical thought and a lack of naivete.

If not, surely you're being just a bit disingenuous? Of course there are an enormous number of people who have no bleeping idea what hard work is. They have not bred the "know-it-all" gene out of the human race. People think they know far more than they actually do; this domain of knowledge over which they believe they have mastery inevitably, in some percentage of cases, includes "what it really takes to make a company successful" or "what hard work and sacrifice really is."

I think you took his use of the "you" pronoun a bit too personally. In a previous life of mine there were frequent occasions where my group would get lectured, collectively, on some topic like drunk driving or safe sex. These lectures were always prompted by the acts of one or two of us. The person doing the lecturing would always say something like, "If this doesn't apply to you, then don't worry about it."

Same deal here. If this doesn't apply to you personally, don't worry about it. I feel like, just playing the odds, his essay probably rings pretty true with a ton of people.
Is it that difficult to replicate what Apple does, provided that you have enough resources? I don't think so. But, still, companies fail to do so.

Yes, what Dropbox does right now does not add up to much, but if they keep expanding their usefulness they could end up reaching a critical mass. Dropbox' business is not a niche: everyone needs effortless backups and file sharing. Everyone. Tomorrow they could be a major cloud storage company indeed.
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piracy != lost sale.

If you get 0 cents with piracy, you will get the same 0 cents without it.
The company I work for experienced a two hour outage several days ago, with a Rackspace hosted stack. It was a hardware failure of some sort, most likely a disk in our DB server.
Nothing is really 100% fail-proof, and each "9" that you want costs an order of magnitude more than the last. I've been happy with Heroku overall, even though their major outage affected me pretty badly last year. They have learned from it, and don't expect they'll get caught by the same thing again. And they are much better at managing servers than I am.
("Dammit, Jim, I'm a coder not a sysop!")
I would be surprised if that analogy holds up. I have heard the Google guys state that the growth of the web easily outpaces advances in computing and bandwidth. The English language, not so much...
I can't read the article now, but in my opinion the fact that it's so difficult to write robust shell scripts above a very basic level of complexity (e.g. do this, then do that, then do that, then quit) really means you should be scripting in perl/python/ruby/etc instead.

Yes, the overhead for anything quick and dirty is higher, but if you're writing libraries, you only have to write them once.

The only real benefit to writing something complex entirely in a shell script is if you can't control the environment it will run in, and you need it to run everywhere, and you can't make users install an interpreter, which are increasingly rare requirements, and even then you have to write it in `sh` anyway.
After reading what you wrote about each one being its own company, then seeing that Google Toolbar still exists, I started thinking:

"We're delivering the next generation in browser toolbar software"

Oh dear god.
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There is "mute everything": turn off your phone completely and it will get rid of all sounds - including alarms which won't go off unless the phone is turned on.
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This is weird and sad indeed.
Oh wow. Okay.

But I still think

> A Chinese individual who sent money back home or canvassed for support might get nailed on quite a few grounds assuming the United States was willing to be consistent in applying its policies regarding Islamic terrorism to anti-China groups.

seems a bit unlikely. Has it happened yet?
I still use Heroku for a few low-traffic sites where I'm not doing anything fancy (like my personal website), but once I got into managing servers with Puppet it was VPS all the way.

If you're using Rails, check out Moonshine (a great Rails-oriented wrapper around Puppet): https://github.com/railsmachine/moonshine/
I don't think that is a common smartphone behavior.
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I can think of two situations in the last few weeks that could have used something like this. I just switched from Sprint to T-Mobile, so I got rid of some CDMA stuff like an Airave (mini cell tower that plugs into a broadband router). I sold it on eBay and took a hit on free shipping, but there is more than likely at least one other person in my condo complex with Sprint and bad reception who could have bought it and saved both of us on shipping, PayPal, and eBay fees. The other situation was at my new job. The armrest on my office chair broke, so I bought a new chair. Unbeknownst to me, the business downstairs moved out and they left a bunch of equipment behind. It wasn't until a few days ago that the new tenants started moving in, and I saw them hauling away the unwanted office equipment. I asked about it, and they said we could take anything we wanted before it went on the truck. If only the last company had offered before I bought my chair.
No Haskell? I'm surprised.
You're missing the point. "Growth of the language" wasn't the problem for spell-check, it was the size of the language combined with limited space. Computational breakthroughs solved that problem. The parent to my post implied that solving the 'space' problem in a different way (i.e. by having more space) somehow harmed software engineering, which it hasn't. Ergo, the suggestion that the web is outpacing computing and bandwidth all the more supports my point, since that problem will be persistent.
I don't know about other people, but cubicles instill in me a sense of paranoia I don't get in an open office plan. It actively raises my stress level and makes it harder to focus knowing anybody can show up behind me at any time and I can't see them coming.
At TitanFile we run our own server for all application-related stuff, and use a third party for email hosting. Reasons:

1) We need to comply with Canadian privacy laws, so need Canadian VPS - and those are way more expensive than in US.

2) To be PCI compliant, you need access to server logs. You can get that with Rackspace but pay a premium.

3) I've managed an in-house data centre before on my own, so I know what I'm doing for the most part.

If you factor all of the above, it's actually cheaper to manage your own servers, even if you outsource the sysadmin stuff to a competent contractor at about $100/h. The catch is there is an overhead initially to provide redundancy that diminishes only when you can utilize that extra capacity.
How would you warn the user?

I was surprised by the behavior initially, but now I far prefer it. I spend far less time worrying about vibrate mode with my iPhone because I don't have to worry at night when I go to bed that my alarm will go off in the morning.

There is no perfect design for this, just tradeoffs. I appreciate the tradeoffs Apple made in this case.
They have a nice exhibit on this at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, complete with actual old consoles and all. I highly recommend checking it out, had never heard of it before seeing it last year.
My main problem with the "mute" is that there is no visual indication whatsoever on the front of the device that it is enabled. So you have turn the phone on its side and peer at that teeeeeny little orange dot (even harder if you have any sort of case).

One of the very few ways the wonderfully designed iPhone is arrogantly "broken". An Android-like (gasp!) icon on the toolbar would be nice.
Why trust McDonalds to cook a burger? Because money. Crashing planes costs money. What, now you don't believe in profit motive? You admit it's a security theater, why defend it? Is TSA presence welcome only at airports, or how about in your home?
I've used rackspace hosted email before, both the regular and the exchange versions. It works nicely and the users were very happy. It gets expensive though if you want push notifications on the blackberry, even without the exchange.

Google Apps has the advantage that it comes with docs and gmail - not just a standard email :O)
More likely is form/input validation.
The problem with a lot of clever solutions is that they often obfuscate the code. This makes it harder for someone to figure out exactly what and how you are doing something. The clever solutions were necessary back then because cycles, memory, and storage were at a premium. Today they are mostly premature or unnecessary optimizations.

As an example, a few months ago a young developer I worked with implemented a set of attributes on a table as a bit field. He had just read an article about then and did it because it sounded cool. It made running reports against the data and doing imports via plain SQL impossible without writing a bunch of extra functions. His clever solution that saved about $0.0001 worth of disk ended up costing several hours of developer time because he didn't just a join table and a foreign key.
About 2-3 months before launch, hard to say how many hours I've spent. Maybe 500 hours.

Many more hours afterwards of course.
Right - those are exactly the sort of face-palm moments that happen to me all the time. Seems like transacting ultra-locally would take a bunch of friction out of the process.

Gaining critical mass, such that connections like the examples you shared could actually be made, would be an interesting communication challenge.