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I find it very difficult to swallow anything written by the OP from the obstructed view at Adobe. After spending nearly every billable hour for more than three years buried in AS3's woeful inconsistencies, undocumented (or un-addressed) compiler issues, seemingly infinite application-crippling bugs, schizophrenic deprecation- any dev who had the misfortune of being relegated to work primarily in AS3 (and god help you if you had to support AS2 and AS3 applications simultaneously) the mere suggestion that Adobe has an opinion that is anything but a head up its own ass probably makes you break out in hives like i just did.
Seems a pretty naive statement. Especially for someone who has been around HN long enough...

Just this week Microsoft has updated their Azure tools with additional NodeJS support, Python and PHP support.

I know many Java developers that actually thing C# is a better language. Personally, it depends on the platform and tools you want to use. I've written anything from JS to Java to C++ to C# to Erlang to PHP to Python in the last year. I don't care about such things...best tool for the particular job.

But, what do I know...
Hootsuite just reported that it is offline - I'm unsure if it is related.

In other news, for once Reddit is working.
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I am not the author. For "proof", see my many conversations on the G-WAN forum.[1]

[1]http://forum.gwan.com/index.php?p=/profile/discussions/1053/...
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Even the real data should contain noise, compared to a true hypothesis. For example, you could predict that a certain (for the purpose of the example, small) percentage of all players will buy a certain ship. But many of them just stop playing by chance, then your prediction fails even if the underlying theory is correct. [1]
I believe the main advantage is, that you can get rid of sampling bias. So you can look at the entire economy, not only on the part which is willing to answer a poll. For a nice real world example see [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_negatives#Type_I_error

[2] http://neuroanthropology.net/2010/07/10/we-agree-its-weird-b...
Soviets were designed as self-governing co-ops - which is similar incentives to a startup with widely held equity right? It's not fully the same of course, but the views aren't so different in their aims.
Is anyone else getting a message that "sathish@DOMAIN.com has been unsubscribed from future notifications."? (Redacted just in case.)

There's a notification at the top of the page for me with that message, but it didn't appear in Chrome. Session collision maybe?
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Our instances still down.
The AWS service health says:
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I don't write a single line of code that caters to one browser. This is where so many people miss the mark on understanding how I develop.

I test browsers in my spare time to discover how to degrade for them. I don't "bend them to my will"; I just use standards-compliant development with proper feature detection.
> arbitrage between virtual economies

Exchange between virtual currencies is discussed somewhat in the 2009 documentary "Another Perfect World"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxZP_ur_Tvo#t=25m

Near the end they interview the CEO of a South Korean company called ItemBay.com who says it's his dream to setup such a market.
Yes, it's actually easier to apologize to your customers when you have AWS to blame for the outage. After all, you're in good company ("even Heroku is down - what do you want from us?")
See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4115159
The objective of testing on older browsers is to break feature testing logic.

For example, Opera 6 has no DOM Core implementation. Ergo, I use it to test code that uses the DOM Core to observe graceful degradation. This enables the code to be "future-proof", or compatible with past, present and future browsers.
This is backwards. There is no "copyright claimant". Inman is complaining about having his works reproduced to push ad revenue without his permission but all he's doing is saying "bad on you, please stop". He's not filing a lawsuit. It's the copyright violator in this case who is making use of legal threats. Trying to map this onto the standard narrative of a copyright owner making a claim against a "pirate" or "sharer" is a mistake that will only lead to incorrect conclusions.
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I also received that message.
Right now any single app can be deployed from any one of a bunch of infrastructures, AppFog is working on the ability to run one app in multiple infrastructures simultaneously too.
... and which is now building the goggle interface device (Project Glass) that Hiro Protagonist used to great effect.

Perhaps the Metaverse will be upon us soon. Will Google take over Second Life?
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The application I am building projects the time on which data is submitted and I would prefer the time to be stored in a unified timezone, calculated for the user and sent based on their timezone. I have all of this worked out, but I would like to pick the best timezone to store the data in. I was thinking Greenwich, but is there a better option? I am in EST, right now.
> I totally agree I am on a high horse. Thats my point instead of being the bigger man and handling this like an adult it appears we are content to fight about it like children "Well he started it ....".

Delusions of being the bigger man aren't the same as being the bigger man. Bullies are the problem, but more than them, people who ask the bullied to let it be and not push the bully back because somehow that makes them a bigger man are more problematic than the bullies.

TheOatmeal didn't pick up a fight. What is he supposed to do when he has a fight shoved into his face? "Well, he started it..." matters, because when funnyjunk started it, it didn't give him choice to opt out of it.

> that doesn't mean we have the moral authority

Who the hell is we here? I didn't know I was joining a collective consciousness by making an account on HN.
The old one did too
Original AirPort Express also does.

Although I wish they could retain the old design, the extra LAN port and no more artificial 5 clients limit is more than welcome.
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Spend some weekends reading up on feature detection[0] and documented "bugs" (read: expected behavior) on MSDN. The time I've spent on both has transformed my perspective as a developer.

We really don't work hard enough because we decry the DOM and blame Microsoft for problems research can and will solve.

[0]: http://peter.michaux.ca/articles/feature-detection-state-of-...
Heroku and AWS users... You don't have a business.
In fact, Heroku and AWS have a boatload of micro-businesses, one of which you run.

If you're serious about your business, you'll host your own servers at a colo (TWO colos if you're really serious) on different network segments/providers, and use Heroku/AWS as a scaling mechanism and NOT a primary computing platform.

They don't care if you lose customers, as long as you don't cancel YOUR account. They'll get more new customers tomorrow due to the bad press, simply because those customers were out of the loop and just now heard about Heroku or AWS and it looks cool when they get there.

Running your own servers is the responsible thing to do if you want to OWN your business and not just look cool by using the latest brand named cloud service thrown around by everyone.

No, Heroku/AWS zealots will not agree with me, but they've never run their own data center. They have no experience.

Get real people. The cloud is just a REALLY expensive way to sell shared servers.

Why do I say this?

I run my own servers on 3 dedicated 1gbps connections, and while you pay $0.12/GB on AWS/Heroku (actually, Heroku costs more, but they bury it in their worker pricing so it looks free), I pay $0.01 per GB. That's right, 1 cent per GB.

While an 8-core machine costs me $0.42/hour all tolled (machine, power, space), you pay almost $0.66/hour on EC2 with no SLA, meaning you're not ALWAYS getting the same machine specs every minute of every hour. You're getting a MAXIMUM commitment of resources, not a MINIMUM commitment.

Yes, I own my own machines. No, they ARE NOT expensive if you know how to buy them.

Heroku has been down 3+ hours this time, and last year had a 70+ hour outage. On my own servers, I haven't had 3 TOTAL hours of downtime in 5 years.

If you want help with server deployment strategy, contact me directly.
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You don't get any hipster cred for using actual useful languages on Hacker News, you've got to use languages which have no proven track record, makes JavaScript look blazing fast and preferably supports more paradigms than libraries.
Abusing the legal system is more than petty and juvenile, it degrades the fabric of all of civil society. It should be met with strong opposition, including petty and juvenile insults. But not real-world harassment or intimidation of course.
I've played off and on since 2003. The corporation I'm part of now has built an ERP and manages a trillion ISK (which at the legal rate is $35,000 USD in assets).

We have production facilities -- several of them. We have distribution facilities. Transportation units (local and long-haul). We have combat pilots to protect the transportation. And we have the final delivery points where we actually sell goods -- both retail (on the market) and bulk (contracts to buyers).

To manage all of this, we have built an ERP system. It tracks our inputs, outputs, and processes. It makes procurement decisions (build vs. buy) and submits orders to the various groups of people who actually make things happen -- the producers, researchers, haulers, marketers, etc. The game is very manual on that front, but we use an automated system to actually submit very small, easy to understand orders that people can do in a few minutes usually. In aggregate, it powers a rather complicated machine.

As an example... let's say somebody places an order for 10 Widgets out in the edge of space. We live out near the edge -- actually, look at this map:

http://go-dl1.eve-files.com/media/corp/Verite/influence.png

That's the sovereignty map. It's updated daily. My alliance is Intrepid Crossing in the top right in green. That's 0.0 space (null-security aka no police and lawless -- players own and control everything). Now, let's go through that example of a user ordering 10 widgets.

* Delivery order is submitted if we have it in stock. If so, someone will deliver it via contract. Done.
* If not in stock, start the decision tree for this item.
* Do we have this in stock in production/stock facilities? If so, submit a transportation order. When it gets transported, the system detects this and submits a delivery order.
* If we don't have it in stock, check the market prices for the goods required to build this item as well as the cost to purchase it from a reseller.
* If it's cheaper to buy, we submit an order to our procurement team. (Automatic, still.) Once they procure it, the order goes to transportation and then finally delivery.
* If it needs building, we do another process of seeing if we have what we need -- or if we have to buy minerals, blueprints, etc.
* If we had to buy things, those orders are submitted to procurement and transportation.
* If we have it (or the minerals arrive), the production order is submitted.
* When we finally have the good, then transportation and delivery happen.

The entire thing is mostly automatic. We carry out the whims of this machine and we supply (rather efficiently) a pretty large alliance. It's a really impressive system.

Yeah, it's a video game. Sort of.

I love it.

And I haven't even touched on the politics, wars, and everything else. It's a beautiful, wonderful, maddening thing.
Just nmap it? The OS fingerprinting will tell you.
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You know, I'm not a scientist, so it's quite possible I've misunderstood the situation here. But if nothing else, what I'm saying is exactly what you can expect the average person with some education—albeit not a scientist—to think, based on a casual knowledge of physics (the role of the speed of light, etc.) reading these headlines.

I don't think I've been particularly discourteous to you, but if I have, I apologize. It would be more helpful in the future to show me what I haven't seen rather than simply insult me.
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We work with 3 providers. Today 2 of then go down. Just Linode is ok now.
Voyager's data store is what prompted my question: what if all that's eventually left of the human race's history and knowledge is the incredibly tiny Voyager record. Which then got me thinking about a more 'long term' data store for a radically larger amount of data. As long term as we can make it, and as safely far away from Earth as we can place it while still being able to somewhat calculate its safety (understanding the one in a million type risks inherent to anything traveling in space). The point would be to leave behind a record (that can be found), for a what-if scenario.
Backwards compatibility isn't a proper way of describing what I do.

Graceful degradation is the proper description. In short, scripts can degrade by testing for the existence of a property (e.g. `Array.prototype.push`) and ignoring the property if it does not exist.

I'll be posting a large project here soon that should clarify the strategy. Stay tuned.
That would explain why the Ethernet ports are still 100mbit.
On the bright side, web server performance, reliability, and maintenance are much more concrete than "amount of spam prevented", and general internet meritocracy has worked well towards ensuring G-WAN's lack of adoption.
Newest update: 10:29 PM PDT We can confirm a portion of a single Availability Zone in the US-EAST-1 Region lost power. We are actively restoring power to the effected EC2 instances and EBS volumes. We are continuing to see increased API errors. Customers might see increased errors trying to launch new instances in the Region.

Source: http://status.aws.amazon.com/?rf
Or: http://status.aws.amazon.com/rss/ec2-us-east-1.rss
ironically, we moved away from linode last month because they kept doing maintenance and turning off our machines without telling us
> "But many of them just stop playing by chance"

I suspect this will be one of the significant weaknesses in trying to translate anything learned in a game economy into real economies. You have much better data in a game economy, but people do grow bored or decide they're just not good enough, and move on. Or people decide they've taken a stupid path and reset their account, and build from scratch. In real life, most people try to keep living even if they're at the bottom end of the economy and don't have the means to change that. This strikes me as a fundamental difference between the virtual and the real.
FWIW, the new unit is actually nice when you have to deal with those pesky power sockets at ground level (on skirting boards) that don't provide enough ground clearance to mount the old Airport Express/other chargers without an extension cable.

Like Apple's laptop chargers, the old Airport Express supported swappable outlet adapters which would let you plug it in with a longer wire, as well.
It is one of the first things that Google+ launched in August of last year. It may be why they built their network in the first place. Page views, signups and monetization on Facebook are heavily correlated to people playing games on the platform.
That's unreliable for client-side work because each frame has its own Array.prototype object which disavows instances that were created by code from different frames. It's a lot like Java classloaders, where if you aren't careful you can end up with several distinct and incompatible classes with identical names and (often) bytecode.
The discipline of statistics can be defined as the set of techniques used to draw inferences and conclusions from a sample--an incomplete set of data. When you have all of the data, playing with it ceases to be statistics and instead becomes data analysis.
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+1. Incredible job Ben. Incredible job.
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It's obviously an accidental omission. But just to play Devil's advocate, not complete isn't the same as not correct. For example, in this case we could just as well be looking at an appositive[1], making the sentence a perfectly well-formed answer to, say, the question "Who's the main character?"

1. http://www.chompchomp.com/terms/appositive.htm
In a sense this is what good designs do. It's a bit about problem solving, and a lot about emotional understanding.
10 clients limit, apparently. Thanks for mentioning this - I have had my AE for a long time and never knew.
I totally agree, but the value that a junior developer can bring to the table is a pair of unbiased eyes. It's what I look for when new developers join any existing team I am on: what can they see that we can't.

At some point in the growth of a human being, we are discouraged from continually asking "Why?" and from questioning things we see. This is largely a bad idea, so showing junior devs that they are in a position to ask questions and help lead everyone to a better solution is great!
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I think Project Glass is probably closer to Manfred Macx's data glasses from Accelerando
I think she's doing the right thing. So is her dad. In the long term, for them, a relationship with the school is important.

All they need to do is play good citizens while the Strisand effect takes care of the rest.
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"outage call" AWS provided, heroku provided or other? Need a good solution for this
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shouldn't Microsoft be more interested in, say, shipping Windows 8 sooner and with more features? They could pay engineers $200,000 a year (a very nice salary) and contract FIVE THOUSAND of them for a single year with that billion dollars

Something something Mythical Man Month something something
It can drive digital signage. That's a pretty giant market, actually.
Instead of waiting for a lawsuit, I think a better option is to move to Android, the competing platform that gives you that freedom right now, today.
Doubt it. It sounds like every folder is the "public" folder, in a sense. It's about time, too.
That image makes sense in the context of the book. In particular, in the book skilled hackers are able to discern meaning from what otherwise looks like binary noise just by looking at it.
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It seems that Heroku has been down for at least 4 hours in June. This makes the June uptime less than 99.5%.
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Yeah, a lot of people feel like its an action movie level parody of the genre.
I like the style of the API better. Unfortunately, the API doesn't do what it says it does :)

I dislike how views are treated in Backbone.
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That is a Snow Crash. A condition I saw frequently learning 68k asm on a Mac. It sometimes looked like that if video memory was overwritten.
It's fairly clear in most cases, except Facebook's usage. It took me forever to figure out what was going on in Facebook's app.

The much worse icon-fail imho is the "share" concept.
http://cl.ly/2j1a40461E1B2U0X2W2q <-- Apple's version is ok, but doesn't seem like "share" and there are many much worse.
There are a few people who are cautious and methodical enough to specify all types in comments and keep them correct. But you need an entire team of them, because type comments which are only mostly correct would be worse than useless. And an entire team wouldn't choose a dynamically-typed language that makes those showstopper bugs more likely.
They keep saying it happened in a single availability zone when I saw frantic tweets from people in 1A, 1C and 1D.
And also because browser-side JavaScript does not have standard modules, where one is able to 'import' another. So even in the development phase, pre-minification, one is discouraged from making new files because of the pain of adding corresponding <script> tags in the HTML file or files and then getting them in the right order, and the larger the project the less you want to be tracking those dependencies manually.

While you can use a module loader library you still have to choose one, learn it and its quirks and adapt other external libraries to use it (some of which might be written for another module loader or - horror of horrors - use their own half-arsed module system).

As for "file-stew" mentioned by the sibling comment, small units are good if you like code reuse. For example, I get sick of writing very basic classes like 'Rect' and 'Vector' (for graphics) over and over again.
I think that would be a great tactic for newly launched google services. Every new service gets %50 credit from me because they're all intermingled with other google services which hinders user experience and shows lack of focus.
There's also the fact that the artist didn't sue, he just said "please stop" and made a funny comic about it. And the fact that the attribution was being removed.

I don't think very many people would be hating on the Hollywood studios if they were just saying, "Hey, man, if you're going to be putting up a torrent of our movie, please link back to us" without even getting the lawyers involved.
really? I've noticed an increase in maintenance with Linode recently but they've always been really great with notice, so much so I am consistently surprised. If there is ever going to be planned downtime I've got an email at least a week in advance and it gives me the option to migrate my linode to another server at my own convenience if their schedule isn't compatible with my needs. Do you not get these emails and options?
Very cool new status page look. Timeline style! kudos to Heroku's team. Too bad I'm such in a bad mood when I visit it.