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Showing enough information for your users to sensibly understand what they should do is important, but thats not what the article was about[1], it was about the application developer wanting to pass-the-buck when there application failed because of a Heroku error.

This is really lame because, you chose to host on Heroku not your customers, so it is your fault. You can play pass-the-buck but as far as your customers are concerned it is your fault.

1. "..Quit blaming all of us"
What is with this WAYN site stealing my identity?
I have never been on or heard of this site in my life.
Is there any information available about how popular each of these configurations is? (do they release that kind of info?)
Yes, vendors shouldn't do whatever they want, they should stick to the spec. In this case, the spec allows any rendering for select elements which allows the user to choose from a list of options. Using a different rendering from other browser does not violate the spec.
See, that's what makes it intriguing. Simple systems can become incredibly complicated over a few iterations very quickly. It is one area that humans are (currently) horrible at predicting -- thus it's barely science if you can only barely predict it.

God, almost by definition, would know the results for any chaotic system and can set up the defining parameters to produce a particular output. (Note that this is different than a fine-tuned universe as I am referring to fine-tuned laws rather than natural constants).
> Amongst other things, your comment implies that we choose coworkers based on personality not on professional skill. That is not the case.

Actually it is. There are plenty of folks with the professional skills, but only a few are "worth" working with.
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Do you have links which says that "a computer in every home" is Jobs' vision? Google search throws up Bill Gates. There is even a plaque for it http://www.flickr.com/photos/mwichary/2184937614/

Though I believe that there are others who should also be remembered, but I am of the opinion that rightly or wrongly history will remember and associate Gates with computers much like Edison is to lightbulbs, Wright is to planes and Bell is to telephones (this is what kids are still being taught)
One of the key things that gets lost in this that the piece tends to assume that unscientific beliefs are somehow bad and we'd be better off without them. I am not convinced that's the case.

There are two reasons I think so. The first is that, as P. W. Anderson pointed out in his essay "More is Different" (published in Science magazine in 1972) reductionism doesn't work. With added complexity comes fundamentally new patterns. Just as chemistry is not just applied physics and biology is not just applied chemistry, I don't think life is just applied science and the real epistemological limits to what science can tell us are very real barriers. Heisenberg does a great job of mapping out these problems in his look at the history of scientific thought ("Physics and Philosophy").

When you look at verbomotor cultures and how they look a the world, their ideas of magic and religion aren't really filling the same roles as science today (see Ong, Walter "Orality and Literacy" and Eliade, Mircea, "Myth and Reality" See also Turner, Victor. "The Ritual Process" and Grimes ed., Ronald "Readings in Ritual Studies"). Instead, in a culture based on spoken discourse instead of writing, everything is based on re-usable patterns that can be flexibly applied. This is something greatly missing in religious thought today. The mystery of a story is not whether it happened in the past but rather how it happens today. From this perspective a story like the Fall from Eden isn't so much about the origins of sin as it is the model of leaving one's parents' house, getting married, having kids, and becoming an adult.

I think these sorts of patterns are likely deeply ingrained in us and it's better for us to accept and use it than fight it in the quest to conform to science. For example, in the article, you have the idea that people naturally think of heat as a substance. This works fine for many applications. One can think of heat exchangers as not being fundamentally different than the system of oxygen exchange in the body or vice versa. They do work the same way on a metaphorical level and these metaphors as Heisenberg shows (again "Physics and Philosophy") are also at the core of the formation of scientific theories. I therefore wonder if we'd have any scientific progress if our scientists had no unscientific beliefs.

Additionally you have issues with the quest to be more scientific often eating the tail of, well, science. For example, it is worth noting that countries in Western Europe who use midwives as the routine primary care for childbirth have better outcomes than Western European countries that do not. Yet there is a fear that by doing this in, say, the US, we will be backing away from our commitment to science. Why is following emperical data seen this way though? Is it that we really worship technology in the guise of science?
Sometimes the best comments are at the bottom. Nice one. ;)
I'm not going to enter the Monsanto sues innocent farmers debate like everyone else here, but those who are educated in the subject have known for a very long time that Monsanto are quite protective of their seed patents. People only know of a handful of cases where Monsanto sued, in reality they sued a lot of farmers in the 90's, not just the few high-profile cases people have heard of, most settle and don't fight.

We're talking about a company who basically got where they are today by manufacturing chemical laden plastics, acids and more knowingly Agent Orange which was used in the Vietnam war as a chemical weapon and the artificial sweetener aspartame under the brand name Nutrasweet. I can only think of one good thing Monsanto have done for the public: they were the first company to start mass manufacturing light emitting diodes in the 70s which are now used in everything. But if it weren't Monsanto, someone else would've eventually done the same thing anyway.

I hope these farmers succeed. You shouldn't be able to own a patent on mother nature just because you modified a few cells. What's next: parents having to pay royalty fee's for children born via IVF? When nanotechnology starts being commonly used in vaccinations and medicines are we going to have to pay a licencing fee to keep the vaccine/medicine working? What happens if and when human cloning takes place, is that clone the property of the creator and licensed out to the original the person was cloned from?
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Side note, but can some one explain or link to something that explains xor-based animation? I couldn't find much in a quick Google search.
He's saying to build a custom function out of well established cryptographic primitives.

I don't think that's a good idea either. There's still a ton that can go wrong that won't be apparent at all to someone who knows how to analyze entropy flows through the internals of hash functions. There's a reason why we have a PBKDF2 that's favored over the original PBKDF.
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What can we do better? What don't we tell you that would help you to make a more informed decision?
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Sounds similar to Pierce's thoughts on pragmat{i|ici}sm:

Consider what effects, that might conceivably have practical bearings, you conceive the objects of your conception to have. Then, your conception of those effects is the whole of your conception of the object

Other than Pierce, there are other thinkers who were pragmatists of one variety or the other that had a big influence on american thinking like Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Dewey, Reinhold Niebuhr and William James.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragmaticism#Pragmatic_maxim

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragmatism#A_list_of_pragmatist...
That was a wonderful graph. It took me a moment to figure out how to read it since the year numbers at the bottom were below the fold, but it captures the horrible quality of the predictions perfectly.

Just mentally drawing a line from the android 2010 starting point to the 2011 starting point (to get the true growth) and comparing the slope with that measly little increase they predicted in their 2010 line nearly made me laugh. Seeing the same mistake virtually replicated going from 2011 to 2012 did.

This is one of those examples where the proverbial monkey's throwing at a prediction dartboard would have been more accurate.
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I never would have bought any of these games if it weren't for the bundle.
What you're saying only makes sense as long on no one acts on their unsupportable beliefs in a hidden world. As soon as they start behaving in a manner inconsistent with the mean collective human perception of reality, they become a danger to themselves and others.
"shit careers" how? Because they don't pay well? You won't get rich? If you're going to dedicate the next 30 years of your life to something, you'd better damn well enjoy it or you will hate your life. You spend more time at work than with your family, so you'd better not hate your job or you'll go insane.

A job that you GENUINELY enjoy should ALWAYS be taken over a job that pays big bucks. We are EXTREMELY fortunate that the jobs we enjoy doing ALSO pay very well. Nevertheless, if I got paid a fraction of what I do I would continue to do it over a job that I did not find interetsing but paid well.

Do what you love - as long as you are above the poverty line you'll be happy. And most jobs will allow you to live above the poverty line :)
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On this same topic, Mike Peters, pulitzer prize winning cartoonist, gave a brilliant commencement speech at Washington University in St. Louis this May.

I admit though, I consider myself one of the lucky few (and probably stand amongst many of you in this category) for whom doing what I love coincides with doing what actually makes me "successful" by our society's standards.

I loved this line though, perfectly described my college experience and discovery of programming: "I was good at lots of other things I did academically, but they all felt like work."
Here's what I see on a maximized browser window at 1280x800, without modifying zoom at all: http://i.imgur.com/2yKz8.png

Do you have a lot of toolbars on your browser or something? Huge font size?
You can't justify poor design by saying that he could have use scrollbars. It is clearly the designer's fault to not have thought of this.
It feels pretty natural though, when you get used to it. Doesn't bother at all. OSX's scrolling I mean.
Yeah PayPal has its own problems of course such as the horrible service like you mention. I had a payment dispute once where neither the customer or the seller (me) had an issue, but PayPal had automatically flagged it as suspicious for reasons they wouldn't specify. Mind you that was 1 problem in several hundred transactions, so it wasn't too bad for me overall. I just think $50/month would be hard to bear when you've got PayPal in the same market at no monthly fee and a lower rate.
Great, it's not enough that HN is turning into reddit, now we have to post actual reddit threads.
I think it would make sense to merge the pricing and instance type sections (in a similar way to the linked page), and to also have all of that information in the new instance flow of the management console.

It would also be great if you could show estimated monthly/weekly pricing for each instance type, with comparisons for reserved and on demand versions.
No, it can be worse.

If 'key' must be kept secret in order to achieve its stated security properties now the system is much more unwieldy for the defender. He now has a key distribution problem that he didn't have before. If the defender can reliably solve the key distribution problem then the attacker wouldn't have gotten a copy of the password key database.

On the other hand, if 'key' is public, then the incremental computational cost added with AES raises the cost for the defender, but not the attacker. The attacker can just un-AES a password hash once and remember the result whereas the defender must perform the AES on every password validation.
This is interesting, I mean a user (aka customer) of a system pointing out the bottlenecks (or loopholes) of your system.
I'll remember this incident of yours. :)
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Calm down, the US government can never run out of dollars, they own the printing presses. I am not being sarcastic.
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This happened to Kant. In Critique of Pure Reason, he presents Euclidean geometry as a set of incontestable, fundamental truths that human beings understand intuitively, and uses that as a launching point to argue for the existence of an ideal universe outside of our own perceptions and experience. Problem is, Euclid's parallel postulate is contradicted by observable evidence, as per general relativity. Other fundamental logical ideas about causality seem to be contradicted by experiments involving quantum mechanics. For science to work, though, we do have to take one thing on faith: That the universe can be understood through observation. Everything else, even logic, is fair game.
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Why is induction not a logical process while deduction is? They are both logical processes of reasoning. You can do induction in philosophy also.
Theoretically, sure, but it's an engineering and economic thing.

You can mitigate specific risks, and you try to prioritize those based on cost, frequency, and severity. If there were a great redundant provider with good authentication on accounts, a strong balance sheet and business, and sane policies on managing accounts, you would be fairly safe using just that provider. After all, you could always get a court order to cease providing services, yourselves, like if you do something some troll has patented. It kind of depends on your application, too -- if I were doing a wikileaks, a bitcoin exchange or torrent site or some other legally at risk business, I'd want country-level separation across multiple providers, at least as a cold backup. Casual game for facebook or mobile, not really much of a concern.
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All other things being equal, a "homegrown" project by coders who know what they're doing is going to be better than a framework project by coders who don't. Yes, I understand your reason, and given coders of equal ability it may be true; but I've seen Django projects written so badly the framework made very little difference to maintenance overhead (and as Django becomes more popular and mainstream we're going to see more examples of this).
Multiple sites of course, though that can be solved with ports.

Some things are harder to do without a hostname - cookies, for instance, can be tricky.
This is a fundamental property of the scientific method: that which is untestable(what you call unknowable)is inadmissible in reasoning. This is also the materialist view you are expressing (and my own view as well).
Not the person you asked the question to but, if I may, I would suggest a 2 (or maybe 3) step drilldown.
A high level, more condensed, summary-type of chart (kind of like the one seen in the original post) that would give a clear overview of the differences between the various types of instances (OnDemand, Reserved, Spot).
And then a way to drill down into instance types and see the details (AZ, Linux vs Windows, etc...)

My issues with the current layout are:

- all the text blocks in between charts that are not really informative after you've read them once.

- The fact that the instance types, data transfer, EBS, etc... are all listed at the same logical level when I make a clear distinction between, on the one hand, all the different instance types and, on the other hand, everything that pertains to an instance (logically underneath an instance).
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I'm American, and I've never paid for an SMS in my life.

You can block texts via your carrier so that people can't cost you 20 cents or whatever by sending you a text. I'm pretty sure that all phone companies have this. This is what I did before the age of smartphones.

Now I still block texts, but I use Google Voice and only give people my Google voice number, never my real phone number. I receive texts through the gvoice app on my phone. Calls go through gvoice (and I can filter/redirect them). I never have to bitch about people costing me money by sending me texts :)
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That's excellent feedback. I will make sure that the team is aware of it tomorrow morning.
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If you posted more info regarding the project, you could in all likelihood find one in this thread or on HackerNews.
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I run unbound as my recursive DNS resolver and it too strips those results out for security purposes.
Wouldn't Apple or Google be able to prevent others from stealing out their domain names from under them? Wouldn't Steve Jobs or Bill Gates be able to? I don't know the law with regard to this, so I wonder if you're right, and there really is no resolution process.
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>>"shit careers" how? Because they don't pay well? You won't get rich?

Contrary to whatever you think 'getting rich' is very important. Its also fun to be rich. Its fun to know you don't have to worry getting up early in the morning and do all you have to to in a hurry just to hit the work desk. Its also fun to not come home tired wanting to do something you love but not having energy or the time to do it. Its also fun to not worry about saving some pennies every month just so that you would want to buy a new phone/tablet or whatever six months later. Its also fun to send your kids to the best institutions out there to get them educated. Its fun to drive the Ferrari, Its fun to go on unlimited vacations in Europe. I can go on and on. Trust me if you have money life is really 'fun'.

I mean the real fun. Not the make believe fun, they tell you in books and articles about fun while sweating at work.

>>A job that you GENUINELY enjoy should ALWAYS be taken over a job that pays big bucks.

Big bucks are more genuinely enjoyable, actually.

>>We are EXTREMELY fortunate that the jobs we enjoy doing ALSO pay very well

No, programming jobs pay marginally well. But that's still not sufficient for what one would call an awesome life.

>>if I got paid a fraction of what I do I would continue to do it over a job that I did not find interetsing but paid well.

I respect your choice, but I wouldn't. The concept of life is to live. And you need to money to live, which in turn requires work. But if you consider work as life. Then priorities all get messed up.

>>Do what you love - as long as you are above the poverty line you'll be happy. And most jobs will allow you to live above the poverty line :)

There is hardly any glory in poverty. And even if you are the best janitor in the whole world. You still won't be able to send your kids to a good university. You won't have a good home, car or whatever. None of that can keep you happy.
"Don't do what you love" sounds like worse advice, so personally I have to agree with the former.
I wish I could vote this up ten times! Another scenario is the company getting successfully sued by Bob for damages because his Windows crashed.

Most of the time, the "best" possible outcome with these customers is you'll be held responsible for all their IT problems as an unpaid technician, and the worst would be they'll use patience with their entire computing setup and take it all out on you. The odds of Bob-type users damaging or even destroying a small company are vastly greater than anything else that could happen.
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Am I reasonable in finding it incredibly amusing that the example in half the screen shots of this announcement are of pinterest?
We will see. Apple made the first widely used home computer and its "computer on every desk" predates Microsoft's "computer on every desk and in every home" (no surprise that Microsoft co-opted Apple's vision here).

I have a hard time believing that someone will be remembered for "computers" when he didn't even make them (same for Gates' involvement for whatever eventually happens with malaria since the one thing for certain is that Gates will not have been the one to eradicate it).
For some reason, I am revulsed by the idea of installing anything related to Facebook, yet will happily install something from Apple ...

I think I might need to get my consumerism rotated.
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