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I disagree. Amazon simply gave you the choice over what level of reliability you require.

Would you have preferred they only offered Multi-AZ databases? (and in the process doubled your development, staging and QA environment costs..)
In addition to an apology, I think FunnyJunk could turn this pr loss into a win by: making some face saving joke about the bear love thing, matching donations to charity, and explaining why they think user generated content on the web is important and the responsibility to police it isn't theirs.
Oddly enough, this is the second game theoretic analysis of toilet seats I've seen in my life; the first was http://www.urticator.net/essay/4/482.html which in some ways seems to be better.
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I am a technology recruiter and I have to say that I can't disagree with 90% of the post. Unfortunately agencies have been started by people with little class on only desire money. I have always known that I will leave the business and I care more about my reputation than anything else. Like an infection, I am trying to espouse my style and philosophy, one built on trust, understanding of technology and LOBs and transparency. I don't want to chase I want to become a hub that people seek.
I'm afraid they'll leave out the most interesting parts of the book and make it a dumb action movie. For me, what makes the book great isn't the plot, it's the satire of american suburbia, globalization, and the weird tangents into sumerian mythology and NLP. I hate when they make movies out of my favorite books...
You can snapshot EBS volumes, however your EBS disk I/O will be blocked while the snapshot is being made, so you can't do it often on a large busy volume.

You can also raid EBS volumes together for realtime redundancy, but adds cost and complexity.
Isn't it like the recruiters are just bloody businessmen? They will snatch your (contractors) portion too if they can, and they can. So they suck money from both parties.

It's a shame really that the employer and contractor don't negotiate directly.
If you ask me thats a genius revenue model, per death. I have no idea if its like that in other games though.
That last sentence made me snicker.
The Oatmeal's lawyer, Venkat Balasubramani [1], is a regular contributor to Santa Clara law professor Eric Goldman's Technology & Marketing Law blog [2].

[1] https://twitter.com/#!/VBalasubramani

[2] http://blog.ericgoldman.org/
Best example off the top of my head is a very old one, adding CD sound processing to a SPARCstation II

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/ffmassalin_pr.html

I don't have a super high succes rate with reflow soldering, but my hotplate isn't quite perfectly flat. I assume the mac boards are all double sided, so i'd be inclined work out a solder bath style solution. Maybe a friendly college student would give access to the EE department's stuff. Maybe there's a cheap benchtop solution. It can't be that bad
I've found the jobs section on Stackoverflow to either be

(a) company looky-loos doing a market survey to see who's available with what skillsets for a cheaper price (the buzzword for this is topgrading), or

(b) a company with an actual opening but you've got to dig so much to find really what the job & compay environment is that interest is lost in the process
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I think you have misread parent; acangiano is not criticizing TheOatmeal, but the people who unlike Matthew Inman have decided to represent themselves, and contrasting them with him.
If the technical question was in a "take-home exam", as it were, or you otherwise had access to the internet, I'd figure you could look things up at will; to be on the safe side, perhaps ask "mind if I use php.net?". It's only reasonable -- you'd have access to the documentation when working in the field, after all.

Being a good programmer isn't about knowing absolutely everything about the tools you're using, that'd be impossible -- being able to look up things you don't know is a very important skill.

If, in a face-to-face interview, I were faced with something I didn't know, I'd say something like "I can't remember quite how this bit works, but I'd look it up on php.net/developer.mozilla.org/api.jquery.com/[appropriate reference]. Do you mind if I use pseudocode for the sake of getting on with the rest of the problem?" -- thus showing honesty, humility, the ability to use the resources available to you, and expedience.
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I am not a fan of CoffeeScript for my own reasons (it doesn't offer enough for me to drop drop JS), but there is nothing stopping the author from writing his CS like so:

move = (aDistanceOf) ->
it = @name or "It"
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snake =
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horse =
name: "Tommy"

move.call snake, 5, "Slitering"
move.call horse, 45, "Galloping"

But really, this is just JS wearing some new clothes. The string interpolation is nice, but apart from that, you really gain nothing over the JS version.
My take is that it's a classic straw man -- you can write inefficient functional code that constantly manufactures and throws away closures ... just as easily as you can write inefficient object-oriented code that constantly manufactures and throws away objects.

The point of object-orientation is that "simple message passing/currying/etc" rarely stays simple for long. Eventually your system wants to have many different pieces of data that all share common functionality, and objects are a great way to model that. But if you prefer to work procedurally, and have a big data structure and a bunch of little functions that operate on it -- that's fine too. CoffeeScript and JavaScript support both.
In the UK the female body decoration the 'vajazzle' has become a talking point because of the TV show 'The Only Way is Essex'. I would guess someone trying to sell vajazzles would be in the market for your Vaginawear.com domain, so there might be some money in it while the fad is ongoing.
I'd generally agree but as a huge fan of The Diamond Age (which would arguably be easier to film) I hope it brings more people to reading Neal Stephenson.
Not necessarily. There would have been one browser: Internet Explorer, and if Hacker News didn't work with it (or if Microsoft had decided to block HN) then I'd be out of luck. And guess what? That's exactly the road Microsoft was going down when the Justice Department intervened and said that their bundling of Internet Explorer with Windows was anti-competitive. Yes, Microsoft got away with a "slap on the wrist", but I do think that decision created space for alternative browsers (like Firefox and Opera, and later Chrome) on the Windows platform.

So yes, I agree with you. If Microsoft had been allowed to proceed down that path, it's conceivable that Hacker News wouldn't be around, or would exist in a different form. Now Apple is going down the path that was trod earlier by Microsoft. Yet the Justice Department today is silent.
He's pointing out that The Oatmeal has chosen not to represent himself, and that others have failed to make that choice correctly in the past. He's also using the linked letter from The Oatmeal's lawer as evidence of how good a decision this was.
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Isn't the financial repercussion not hiring their candidate and credibility for the future?
> Ermmm. TheOatmeal isn't representing himself.

Did you read the second sentence of the post you're replying to?

> How is this reply a testament to anything? You talk like TheOatmeal has lost the court case.

Seriously, you need to read that second sentence. He talks like he just really appreciates a good lawyer.
I was in your shoes benkross.

There are a few decent recruiters out there mate. Keep your head up and keep your dignity at all costs.
I would feel a lot better about it if it was being done by Christopher Nolan. Inception was proof that he doesn't let suits dumb down complex plots.
But you have to admit that the opening sequence will at least be awesome: a pizza delivery guy who works for the Mafia flying through an extremely dangerous libertarian dystopia.
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...and now when you tell people you like Neal Stephenson, they'll say "Oh, I saw Snow Crash!", and you'll say "The book is better than the movie", and everyone will think you're a jerk.
sigh, i just realised HTML files would just download and not open this way. Why Dropbox, why?
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I think we’re making the same point, namely that if “X” is harmful, simply ignoring X is insufficient, you must take active measures to avoid being “contaminated” by X.

We can debate how much effort is involved firewalling your code from X. It obviously varies depending on what precisely X is and how popular X is, but you clearly have to do more than simply “ignore” it.
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I doubt that is worth $100k to FunnyJunk, though.
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I still have quite a few but it's still my intention to build on them. I tend to let the ones that are hopeless expire, but the one I wonder about is wheresmyflight.com. When I was traveling a lot, I noticed that the flight status and plane locations were much more accurate on the airline's freight websites. If Twilio had been around I probably would have created the application, but sending SMS and voice messages wasn't really practical at the time.
On the contrary, I'm saying that The Oatmeal was smart in deciding to hire a great lawyer. My comment was however more general than the specific case. As a smart person who is very competent in a given field, it's easy to fall prey of a cognitive bias which leads one to believe that you "know better" even within fields in which you lack the proper training and expertise. This is a testament, not because The Oatmeal made a foolish choice (he made a great choice), but rather because anyone reading the letter can appreciate the value and expertise brought in by such a competent lawyer.
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I'm happy with my Linux desktop, though Linux desktop penetration stagnated for the last decade. I'm not sure I have that much to gain from being mainstream.
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The Netflix approach (which definitely isn't for everyone), is to use no persistent storage.

They cluster their databases across multiple instances, availability zones and regions, and back them up constantly to S3. Their ultimate recovery plan is to restore from backup if necessary, which is pretty much the same as assuming EBS will corrupt your data.

While it's far from trivial to do it that way, they seem to be the most successful user of the AWS systems.
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That's right. And this is why we have a class of businesses called "retailers" whose function it is to absorb and amortize that risk. If you don't want to sell to the hoi polloi (edit: typo), don't: sell wholesale instead (you just won't get the same markup).
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No, you did not make a mistake by being honest. If you'd have fluffed it or lied you would have either made yourself look stupid or found yourself in a position that doesn't suit you at present.

Be honest and in the long term it will be the right decision. And learn about multi-dimensional arrays - they're super useful.
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> Does angular use the jQuery library?
>Yes, angular uses jQuery, the open source DOM manipulation library. If jQuery is not present in your script path, angular falls back on its own implementation of jQuery lite. If jQuery is present in the path, angular uses it to manipulate the DOM.
Most English-speaking lawyers do the same. This letter was refreshingly clear in its use of language.
My problem with them is they don't provide RFOs (Request for outage) because they can't give away any of the "propitiatory secretes" about their setup. I'd like to know what happened when it effects me. Also when it comes to replacing hardware or preforming maintenance, their priorities wont always line up with mine.
Personally I've found recruiters people who would excel at being used car salesmen or attorneys, except for the morals part - they're lower.

Here in DC they'll get $20-30K per person they refer that gets hired. Meanwhile the worker-bee is left trying to get $60-$65K as a developer because the company overpays the recruiter. So you try to change companys hoping for a $2.50/hr raise, only to meet up with a recruiter who'll get $30K off you if you do.

F*ck them and everything about them.

What's wrong with the recruitment industry - recruiters.
These days, the stock specs of the Macbook Retina will be fine for even power users for years; almost certainly the life of a laptop.

When the battery dies it will be worthless as a laptop. For a power user that means you are forced to buy a replacement way sooner than you'd want.

Just yet another reason for why it is so obvious that apple does mainstream hardware, the sad part is that people confuse it with quality hardware.
Personally I don't see how this would save me time, I would rather just design in html/css.
On the other hand the book will sell like hotcakes in a new shiny-covered reprint with a "Now a Major Motion Picture" banner across the cover.
Sure, just duplicate your entire stack in at least two zones and replicate all data in realtime, and then you just need to convince your boss/investors/yourself that spending 2X on hosting is worth it. Once you add up the costs you soon realize that risking several hours of downtime once per year is more acceptable than doubling hosting costs. For anyone who is not hosting air traffic control or banking systems it's really not worth it. Seriously, if your web service is hosting social brain farts or selling cup holders, and not landing a space shuttles, then it can be offline a for few hours per year.
Protecting the state owned company its just the excuse to protect the corrupt government from having the same destiny as the egyptian, gaddafi's and so on.
Some state monopolies are essential to democracy, for example justice, military, law enforcement. Imagine private judges.
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It's of course possible. I'm accepting all offers in the 7 figure range. ;-)

In all honesty though, I had little idea that was an actual thing. I figured it was just, y'know, parody of bedazzle. Maybe it's just me, but I can't see that being anything other than roll on the floor hilarious, and definitely not enticing.

To each their own I suppose.
Honestly, the problem is that there is no security model. These drivers were never supposed to be exposed to untrusted code. We have a long way to go before driver vendors pull their heads out of their collective asses and start producing good code, especially since it will most certainly come with steep performance penalties.
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Also who cares about Facebook and Google+?
Isn't the web moving past social and onto something new?

I think will see the fall of the Social Empire and these social networks will break up into smaller social networks.
If it's the Courier (it won't be), I'll buy one.

Otherwise, methinks I'll stick to my iPad.
I've got a '10 MacBook Pro, but it's got an ancient '08 Core 2 Duo. I can't imagine needing a faster machine, and I even do moderately CPU intensive stuff (compiling, etc).
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I think the letter was brief and to the point. Lawyers are criticised for excessive legalese and impenetrable prose. Contrary to this, the phrase you mention is easily understood by the reader and serves its purpose.

In terms of his awareness of the flaws, I would say that they would be apparent to most people with an awareness of the basic facts of the case. Obviously in reality, I have no idea of his awareness but I would be surprised if he wasn't.
Maintaining a supply of spare parts for a line of notebooks could very well use more natural resources than maintaining a supply of working laptops for replacement.
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The story does have a revision date that's shortly after patio11's comment, so that seems quite likely.
You really think the writer of Attack the Block can't handle weird-ass tangents like in Snow Crash? :)
Now you know :) BTW, is it just me or are most "midwest" states actually more east than west?
The Constitution is merely an expression of sentiment. Its force comes not from the fact that it is the "law of the land", but from its general support amongst the populace.

Could government agents flout the Constitution and public sentiment? Sure. But they couldn't get away with it for long without public support.

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Play the psychological game. Your attack can't seem tentative; if it does, you're telling your target how to defend themselves. Minimizing effort maximizes gain.
I don't know if the European Apple-tax makes this tenable, but I just sell my MBP on EBay every year or two. A 16-month old MBP 13.3" is selling for about 70% of its original price on EBay. If you do this three times in four years, you'll have paid about as much as the original price of the machine, for about as long as you were going to keep the machine anyway, but will get little upgrades over time as Apple upgrades that model #.
That's exactly right. The memory interconnect on the board is the same as it is anywhere (the DRAM controller in modern Intel CPUs is inside the chip, so the memory is just directly connected). The only difference is that the chips are soldered to the board instead of being on removable DIMMs.
Look at it from the other perspective. Lots of people will learn about this book because there is a movie about it.

The movie should not take away from the fact that books are brilliant.
SPDY as specced does not require TLS. However, you can see Google's WebSocket connectivity test results at http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tls/current/msg05593.ht.... The poor connectivity over ports other than 443 is one of the strongest motivations for real deployments of SPDY over the public internet to require TLS.
I would like to see "SpaceX" as a measure. As in, "Microsoft has just acquired Yammer for 1.5 from-scratch space programmes". Just to put the real value of money into perspective.
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My solution is to just leave the toilet seat any which way and pay it no mind. If someone's getting bent out of shape over this sort of issue, they're squarely in the realm of first world problems.
I've interviewed a few times for "data scientist" positions lately and I found the two answers that get you out of most trouble are:

#1 look it up in a hashtable, and
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"look it up in the literature" is the answer you're really going to use on the job, so be proudof it.
I've worked w/Venkat before. He's always this good... He's the kind of lawyer, like grellas and Douglas Choi at http://tangolaw.com that makes you excited about the artful practice of law. When done well, responses like this are like a perfect movie review - so well crafted that the review itself becomes art.
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Those must be expensive to hold on to. Usually .io goes for $99/year.
A statistic estimates a parameter of a population. If you have the population, you don't need statistics because you already know the parameters.

Having 'all the data' sidesteps any possible need to use statistics outside of forecasting, which he doesn't seem too fond of anyways.
Snow Crash is an interesting book, but a deeply flawed one. Stephenson's later books are much better (though after Diamond Age they become too long to film anyway).

It is a bit of a dumb action movie, in many ways. A guy with a sword takes on an entire flotilla, if I recall correctly. The coolest moment in the entire book involves somebody saying "I'm sure they'll listen to reason" and then pulling out an enormous gun labelled "REASON". So if the movie turns out to be full of dumb action sequences it'll only be consistent with the book.

Another major flaw of the book, as written, is that it has chapters upon chapters of exposition which are basically dialogue scenes between Hiro and the librarian program. Most of the actual overly complicated plot stuff winds up getting explained in these scenes.

The third problem with the book is a rather dated view of the future... or by now a rather dated view of the immediate past. Both Hiro and the other dude are reasonably young guys whose fathers fought in World War 2, which puts a fairly stringent limit on how late you can possibly set it (unless you play around with which war it was; I think the fact it was WW2 was fairly vital to the backstory though).

Anyway, I'm not against a Snow Crash movie at all, I'm just pointing out that it needs some serious work to be adapted, and that may wind up throwing out some of the bits that many people like best about it.
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What if these bands are paired to phone via bluetooth so that the base station can send commands to the phone (through the mobile network) which in turn relays it to the band - would it allow a more fine grained control with acceptable latency?
You don't though, as noted above. If you checked the 'multi-az' check box, which costs a little extra, then everything worked properly.

If you cheaped out and used a single-AZ deployment, against published best practices, than it's your own damn fault.
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> I updated the clock, Dropbox deleted all files in my Dropbox that were newer than the last time I had that machine running.

While off-topic, this is a concerning scenario that I hadn't considered.
I don't see the connection between defamation and competition. Would it change the nature of the lawsuit if he were a competitor?
The battery is glued in, but apparently it is replaceable via factory service. No, I don't know what that means either (maybe they replace the plastic case part with it?).
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The book "Architectural Geometry" http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/193449304X/103-2668819-9693... is a fantastic read with plenty of nice geometric insights.