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Why?

Because humans reason inductively and not deductively. We use short cuts, quick heuristics, analogies and similes. We anthropomorphize, we look for direct causes and effects over linear time scales. That's just the tip of the ice berg.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases - That's a pretty comprehensive list. Memorize and comprehend all of those, and even then you won't get a handle around how badly humans reason - because you are human yourself!

It's also why humans find programming difficult (logic is very unnatural to a inductive reasoner). All swans are white programmers will quickly smash into the error caused by unpredictbale black swans coming into the system. Hence that's why you need exceptions, conditionals and containers to deal with the most absurd inputs (http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/04/working-with-the-ch...).

Humans are animals, with a bunch of neurons in their heads that look for and extract statistically significant patterns from correlated data over short term linear time scales. We mistake correlation for causation thanks to all the mental shortcuts that were used to keep us alive in a less complex world.

Why don't we believe in science? The same reason we eat food, drink water and socialize with our peers - to stay alive. Science is deduction from first principles (backed by evidence of course). And that is very, very unnatural.

Note: Proud reductionist here!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_induction
When the display only has black and white pixels, you can XOR the a "sprite", or image to the screen to draw it, and XOR the same sprite in to the same location again to undraw it. The advantages are that you don't have to redraw the entire screen this way each frame, images can overlap, and you can draw your image on a black background or a white background.

For animation, you pre-XOR the sprites together so that a single XOR both erases the old image, and draws the new one, in a single blit.

http://z80-heaven.wikidot.com/sprite-routines has some sample code and perhaps a better explanation. http://tibasicdev.wikidot.com/68k:sprites has some sample pictures.
> dependencies on specific implementations are not required to build a framework that offers features

I think this is incorrect. You can't offer features without implementations; The feature will never be completely agnostic of its implementation. When you get a really strong shift in the possible implementations (for example: websockets or even long polling, vs rpc) then the feature (for example: dynamic UI), if re-implemented, starts exposing very different semantics and secondary features.

To sum it up: if you implement a thousand ORMs based on SQL db's then they're all going to look the same, implement one thing based on a NoSQL database and you suddenly see how the "feature" of "storing data" suddenly becomes something different from what could be anticipated by the people who designed the original "feature" back in the SQL era.

Let's not lie to ourselves and pretend that features are some wondrous thing poised in thin air above their implementations.
"Sun rises" implicates only movement. Sun apparently moving does not imply that I'm stationary. It's easy to tell that the sun moves same way as trees move seen through a window of a train.

You could explain it to a 4 year old. But for that you have to know and believe that it's the Earth that actually moves. Otherwise you'll plant false idea and intuition into member of next generation.
Don't we are about the ability of the compiler to optimize? Does anybody compile code nowadays?
Your argument is just saying a blank piece of paper is the best framework.
I think your making a few logic errors there. There would have to be some effect to prove either of those theories and that would be scientifically relevant. Just for example the first may be say seeing into the heavens which would raise questions about what laws of physics governs theres.

In other words "knowledge of the universe" == "knowledge" and there is no irrelevant knowledge as the universe is everything.
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As silly as it seems, I think there's tremendous power in that concept. For a lot of people Facebook is one of the few apps in use. Providing apps inside Facebook sounds like a great way to capture the audience Apple is missing out on.
Looking at it this way, the price difference does look staggering. And I am happy that Hetzner kind of dedicated hosting services will keep EC2 kind of cloud hosting services honest.

We moved from a dedicated service to EC2 in 2010. At the time got some 30/40% drop in the hosting cost for the same traffic. As apart from marginally less hosting price, it also allowed us to start some instances in the day time and shut them in the night. So hourly billing is a plus.

Which also allows me to not shy away from experimenting before use. For example, on moving time we were on 32 bit and were running only small instances.

Now we have built 64 bit images which allows running of anything we like from small to extra-large. So for example at present we have 2 mediums and 1 small running in the day time. And just 1 medium and 1 small running in the night time.

And for some time in between tried it out with just 1 large and 1 small. I always need a small one. As there are lots of scripts which keep doing health checks etc. on each other, and can restart the other, on some conditions. So 2 instances are needed for reasons.

So you have to factor in these kind of reasons too. The dynamism it offers is a big reason (and need for some) to stay there when the other alternative is dedicated.

Sincere question: As I would like to be aware of some other good options. Does some other companies like RackSpace offer as much control as EC2 does?

edit: typos and minor rephrase
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I'm curious how much effort it needed. The images where beautiful and professional. Excellent work.

The voice was lacking some testosterone, but it's a detail.
I'm sorry about the critics on the technical aspect of your app. There are indeed some true JS hackers around. I hope you get over it and collect all the good ideas to enhance your product.

I'm no JS hacker and I wasted allot of time trying to figure out why m app wasn't doing what I expected it to do. There is a problem there that needs a solution. As you see hackers have their own tricks to get around this problem. Collecting them and offering them in one plug and play product would be very usefull for all the people out there who aren't hackers.
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That's a common idiom in Haskell, too :)
Hi James, in this tweet I'm referring to phpfog, which has been publicly deprecated (the polite term for "throwing away the code") in favor of a cloudfoundry deployment. Not necessarily a bad move in their situation... but yes, as a result it is not a very fearsome contender in the paas market.
And also ask them to respect the patterns in existing code. I see that programmers of every language or framework do some shortcuts specific to them.
I found myself wincing at "pressure produces heat". For the purpose and context of this article, that is probably close enough. Because the subtlety of energy spent increasing pressure being converted to thermal energy is too finicky. But it's also more correct.

And this relates to a problem I've run into whenever you try to talk to an expert about something. People come up to me with fanciful ideas about physics and you have to stop them every five seconds to clear up what they mean by "power" or "energy". Or (as a favor) just listen all the way through and see if you can get a notion of what they mean so you can discuss their idea.

Same thing happens when I try to ask lawyers about something. I'm always getting asked, "Do you mean a law, or a statute?" or having things like "well, that's a legal term-of-art" given back to me.

The point being that it's hard to jump into thinking about anything that others have spent a long time considering and carefully defining.
"access from any Node.JS applications"....running on Windows. Pretty big limitation which suggests it's business as usual at Microsoft.

Also

"Driver={SQL Server Native Client 11.0};Server=(local);Database=AdventureWorks2012;Trusted_Connection={Yes}";

really should be:

{server: 'localhost', database: 'AdventureWorks2012', trusted: true}
I tend to find that the strongest proponents of dynamic typing are the least familiar with good static type systems.
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That's the EC2 on-demand price. Getting a dedicated box means going long term; comparing to EC2's reserved pricing is more compatible in need.

Here are the EC2 rates for reserved instance (total including hourly fee plus reservation fee):

$375/month for reserving 1 year

$282/month for reserving 3 years

It's not too bad compared to Hetzner. On-demand instance is for spinning it up on very short notice and shutting it down after the work is done.
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The studies on happiness I've seen tend to conclude with "money doesn't buy happiness but lack of it does buy misery." The specific amount of lacking depends on the relative poverty line and in the US decreases as income approaches ~$75k/yr USD. But there's a lot of individual factors involved with happiness even if on average money has a measurable effect. Some people are really cheerful living below the poverty line but for most it's not a great place to be. Others make do with what they have and are content. Others use credit cards to inflate their income by $2k-$50k. There are also plenty of manically depressed millionaires, so cash alone is not sufficient for some. There are lots of blissful stupid people. I think the better question in these discussions is "what's the optimal happiness a human can achieve, and what can I achieve in the near future?" Since we can measure it I agree with you that money is an important factor, perhaps the dominating one for some individuals, but not the only one.
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Thanks for your comment ScottWhigham. If you've sold stuff on Craigslist/eBay, you would definitely know the value of such a service. The number of robo calls you get when you post your real phone number in ads is annoying. It doesn't end there - even weeks/months after your ad has expired and disappeared from Craigslist, you continue to receive marketing calls you didn't ask for and aren't interested in.

There is a reason why most people opt to use the anonymous email address that Craigslist provides while posting ads. We're only making it possible for people to have a similar experience with their phone numbers.
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And in particular, trying to compare the effectiveness of English vs. French by using 49 undergraduate students who weren't proficient in either language.
Once a CNAME exists for a name, no record of any other type may exist for that same name (it's an override for all types).

But for a query like this, a server is allowed to return both a CNAME and its relevant target(s) ... as long as they are within-bailiwick. It can go right into the answer section, e.g.;

% dig example.allcosts.net @ns-22.awsdns-02.com.
...
;; ANSWER SECTION:
example.allcosts.net. 300 IN CNAME at.allcosts.net.
at.allcosts.net. 3613 IN A 85.91.5.16

this is permitted because the original type of the query was "A", so we can include it as an answer, and it will avoid a round-trip on behalf of the recursor. That's all regular RFC1035 behaviour.

It's more common to use the additional section to include details about the target(s) of MX, SRV and NS records. That's more of a "I know you asked for an MX record, but you're going to need this A / AAAA record too pretty soon, so here it is in the additional section" kind-of thing. The additional sections in the responses to the following queries should be illustrative;

dig NS ns_example.allcosts.net @ns-22.awsdns-02.com
dig MX mx_example.allcosts.net @ns-22.awsdns-02.com
dig SRV srv_example.allcosts.net @ns-22.awsdns-02.com

Something I forgot to mention; Being that DNS is the chaotically documented protocol that it is, I'm glad they launched early with a minimally viable product. It's the best way to get feedback like this for free! I think the real scope for real-world error is something like 1 in 100 users experiencing a problem as-is. Most resolvers are hyper tolerant of any amount of DNS crud, because they've been beaten on so much by poor implementations over the years. But the 1% of the time it breaks will cause you hours of pain in debugging.
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Android has supported it since v 2.2 (at least 3 years since HTC Hero), and I've used it on Samsung, Motorola and HTC devices. Blackberries also have a deep implementation of AIR.

Are there actually any higher-end phones or tablets made by anyone other than Apple that don't support flash? I'm genuinely curious since I love to play on kongregate.com during commutes.

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The Opera guys posted this today, and the author didn't understand the nature of stateful compression.

SPDY is getting well over 85% compression in the real world across millions of installed users.
You really should develop your apps so that they are path agnostic. And the mod_rewrite rules can be fixed with a simple RewriteBase declaration (RewriteBase /subdirectory).
I've never found this a major problem that requires a DNS server to fix.
I like http://localtest.me because it's the only one I've seen with a valid wild card SSL...makes testing and switching between HTTP and HTTPS easy.
You seem to be subtly implying something about people that use dynamic languages.
The study may or may not be flawed, but what's really interesting to me is the reaction. We need more science in our computer science, which means more experiments and more results like this. We should also be open to the truth that we use the tools we like because we like them rather than because they're technically superior, even though we pimp them ad nauseum as though they are.

I once read an article about a technique Intel had developed for improving cooling of processors by changing the shape of the fan. I related this to some of my co-workers. One of them proceeded to tell me that this can't possibly work, backing up his argument with "reasoning" based on off-the-cuff remarks about the way air and physics "must" work. The fact that Intel had actually done this seemed to have no effect on his eagerness to continue the "debate" about this scientific fact.

I have a hard time believing that I get no benefit from using Haskell over Smalltalk, but if a body of science were to appear that cast doubt on that belief, the appropriate thing to do is change the belief, not stand around debating from imagined first principles why all the science is wrong and can't be so. Shut up, design an experiment and go prove it!

Perhaps there's little of this kind of actual science in our computer science because it would mean asking hard questions and accepting difficult truths. "The prisoner falls in love with his chains."
I recently talked to a friend of mine who expressed the frustration of not knowing what a function returns because it's a language without static typing. It was something I hadn't thought of before personally. I thought about it a bit and realized that as a Ruby programmer, I depended on two things to figure out what a function returns, and neither is the source or documentation (most of the time at least):

1) a REPL. Just give it a whirl and see what you get.

2) intuitive method names and good abstractions. If I
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I prefer this one, which was a response to a prompt about meaning: "How should I know? I only wrote the thing."

I've heard it attributed to Hemingway.
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I don't get the point of this.
Reserved instance pricing brings the monthly price down, but for me it's not making ec2 look more appealing. The 3 year price is still 2.5 times the hetzner monthly price after initial setup fees, you lose the ability to autoscale this box, and you are locked-in for 3 years. I would argue a Hetzner box is more like ec2 on demand than reserved because it can be canceled at the end of any month. You can't spin it down immediately and stop paying, but you are definitely not locked in.
I made a similar spreadsheet when I was trying to compare Amazon RDS with a dedicated server from Rackspace. It's a little tricky due to different services having different pricing methods - some of which based on the amount of bandwidth you use. But, this is my attempt to neutralize the differences to compare prices.

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> Any animal is distinctly different from others and even a clone of itself, if that's not a soul maybe some other name would be better.

Science won't disappoint here: we call distinguishing stateful substance a "brain".
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The biggest difference between SPDY and Microsoft's proposal is that Microsoft's proposal is only theory at this point. The SPDY proposal has dozens of independent implementations behind it and 3 years of operational experience.

I'm not trying to dis the proposal; just point out that it is in its infancy. To jump start it, Microsoft started with SPDY at its core, but changed the syntax.
It would be very helpful to add two columns to include the reserved pricing (one year and three year ones).
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Hi shrove, thanks for the precision. You have a point - you're tackling a particular edge case in deployment which most paas providers are neglecting, leaving you vulnerable to shifting priorities in their roadmap. It makes sense for you to take your destiny into your own hands, so to speak.

My question was triggered by your article but not particularly targeted at you - I was hoping to start a philosophical conversation on the pros and cons of running a business on top of IP which you don't own. So far I don't see any takers ;)
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Great idea and it's working fine!

However, there seems to be a minor error in README.md: it points to ~/config/fish/, whereas the default fish config dir is ~/.config/fish/ (the dot is missing from ~/.config).
There is no past for this type of thing. In 1857, 40,000 people could not sit in the woods of Russia and (potentially, just possibly) ruin worldwide communications, much of commerce, trade and banking, etc, for everyone just by invalidating some mathematics and sending a few letters out stating their findings - with no other direct or indirect manipulation of anything. That's what I meant by saying it's a "public good."

This is unprecedened. I chose $800B as an absurdly large sum that I believe is more than Academia would spend on this question in a few years. (I could be wrong though.)

Downvoter: I know you think it's not secure if a trillion dollars of research can break it - but guess what: there is a nonzero chance that between here and 800 billion dollars from here there is a quantum device. that doesn't mean it actually exists. it means it could exist if one of the world's biggest economies throws that much military R&D at it. I'm saying they shouldn't. at least, not with that goal (breakig crypto for everyone; quantum computing itself is a welcome advance). Please be more practical.
Anyone that is running servers for a large percentage of the time should be using reserved instances that are priced much lower than the on demand prices shown here. For example for a small instance that runs constantly, using a heavy utilization reserved instance would cost $335.16 for a year compared to $700.80 with on demand pricing.
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> Those things I do not know about, I do not know about. It is not logical to waste energy either believing or disbelieving in them.

That's the atheist position: An atheist (like me) simply accepts evidence and comes to conclusions based on that. My disbelief in deities is the same as my disbelief that my bank account currently contains one million dollars US: The best I can do based on my current knowledge.

Agnosticism is a belief that we can't know some things, which I do not have.

> but there's nothing wrong with Joe SixPack believing it.

Fine, unless his belief in it means he kills his family and himself so they can escape the Matrix. Beliefs have consequences.

> This means that science education is not simply a matter of learning new theories. Rather, it also requires that students unlearn their instincts

This I fully agree with.
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And when you have a chance, I'd certainly be happy to take you out for drinks and chat for a bit. Sometime next week, perhaps?
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> I would argue a Hetzner box is more like ec2 on demand than reserved because it can be canceled at the end of any month.

Don't agree with this, unless there is hourly billing. As if you just want to try out some thing, say a large instance instead of medium, to just see how it changes something, won't be possible here.

edit: would love to know why the down vote?