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I've been wondering this myself lately. It seems that every major EC2 outage hits US-East. By comparison, my US-West instances have way better uptime (granted, over a shorter test period). I've never tried the Europe or Asia zones, but I'm tempted to now.
I think google + is growing slowly but surely, a lot more of my friends are on it. I like the interface a lot better. It is WAY more polished, facebook seems hacky compared to Google+
Start using scrypt with Python and Postgres to store passwords
Yeah, I find it's easier just to put my brain into Eliza mode and think about something else.
Great post, but I'm not sure how a jobs board solves this problem.. where is the innovation? We're going to shaking up the creative recruiting industry here in Australia with Dragonfly. Our beta goes live next week, keen for feedback. http://dragonflylist.com
Every time someone raises this point of view (that Google is flat-out copying everything they can), someone comes up with "remember Google Glass and the self driving cars". The problem is: neither innovations are yet on the market and we frankly don't know if they'll ever be. Just like very innovative products from OTHER companies as well. Remember MS Courier and Nokia's flexible/morphing phones?
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That would be even more ridiculous than forbidding her to photograph things
and would probably increase the public outrage by at least two orders of
magnitude.
Oh well, if you don't like it buy something else, but to be perfectly honest, 90% of folk out there will not be bothered with this at all. They are probably buying the laptop for its portability, price point and performance and like every aspect of life, there are trade offs. I would be quite happy (very happy in fact) with buying the new Macbook knowing that it has no upgrade ability.
The correct way to calculate this (using prices for the previous gen MBP as found on crucial.com) would be $160 for the 16GB kit - $46 for the 8GB kit = $114. Compare that to $200 and it's still more than 50% markup. Of course, these are retail prices, while Apple's BOM math will be totally different, but still...
How much time commitment do you figure on when your site is down and paying customers are calling and emailing you?
I have helped a computerphobe (hates computers and Internet, clueless, but must use them) with Dropbox. She gets that her folders on various computers around town are synchronized.

I had a very difficult time explaining to her that her same folders and files are available via the web interface.

Those people are out there.
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Not quite sure what you're asking, sorry. If you want to know if it was an actual problem specific to the situation or if it was transference (ie, you have a bad day at work so you go home and kick the dog), then I'd say both.
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Please bear with me: what exactly is the data that Facebook refuses to share? As far as I know, apps have access to pretty much ANYTHING they wish (as long as the user grants it)...
Thanks for the tip, but it comes with zero guarantee the link will work that way next week.

And with changes like the one being discussed here I'm guessing a referrer / login check will be in place at some point in the future (basically downgrading DropBox public sharing to the equivalent of Google Sites).

Edit: It's also worth noting that this parameter forces a download rather than opening things in the browser when possible.
Nice hijack attempt. Have a read of our blog to understand the vision. Good luck with your company.

Protip: Disparaging companies attempting to solve the same problem as you is a dick move.
Adultery is rather common. Estimates vary widely, but 2-4% of children are not biologically related to their 'fathers'. Which only measures female adultery leading to a child add in male adultery it's farm more common than generally acknowledged.
Yes, but it doesn't compare when it comes to price either, considering a single Dyno costs $36/month when I'm paying $44/year for the whole plan.

(And that comes with excellent support - for example, I asked if they were planning to offer Python and they said "Sure, just gives us a couple of days to set up a machine with Python for you", even when I was only interested in the cheapest plan).

I know they don't serve the same market, but I find it strange that a service that costs an order of magnitude more doesn't have a better uptime than cheap shared hosting.
It helps that Apple stores have an employee density many, many times that of a Best Buy or similar, which means people are unlikely to get away with anything sneaky for too long.
Definitely feels like Google is on a PR push the past week or two for Google+. Been seeing a lot of articles either differentiating G+ from FB or talking about how social media marketers can blah blah blah on G+.

In other words, this article and others like it feel like a submarine[1].

1 - http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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I don't get this "less options is better" vibe. Applying this logic the best thing is having just one option, isn't it? The fact that Apple reduce costs and their customers are always happy doesn't make it a good engineering solution IMHO.
HTML5 caching has a very limited file size
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OK then. I have already 7-8 tabs in my terminal open all the time (a few for servers, some for redis, some for mongod, some for vi, some for other tools, some for debugging, etc.), so I guess another tab wouldn't hurt (I'm not a fan of running processes in the background).
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An interesting resonance with Charls Stross's Halting State.
You can say what you like about the Constitution, but my tin foil hat says that the reason you don’t have laws like this in North America is because we have the technology and can afford to snoop on Skype, email, and so forth at scale. Ethiopia simply doesn’t have the money and/or know-how to monitor VoIP and Email at scale. There’s no salient difference in policy between them and us.

If we rewrite the law to say, “Thou shalt not use a communication mechanism we can’t monitor,” the behaviours of Ethiopia and US/Canada aren’t all that different.
>If every U.S. citizen could create dollars, we would indeed have hyperinflation.

For that same reason we don't give the power to create dollars to Congress.
http://consumerist.com/2012/06/so-does-installing-a-new-os-v...

It would appear that it was not a mistake. This is precisely why I need to hear a very clear "we messed up and are taking action to prevent it from happening again" rather than just "oops".
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It all depends who you interact with and how. In my case, Facebook shows me a good deal of interesting stuff (although there's a manual work of filtering out friends over time, as they post irrelevant stuff). Stopped using G+ a few weeks ago, since all I saw there was an echo of what I'm actively blocking on Facebook: jokes, funny videos and more of the same
I don't know, I think heroku should provide the value proposition that - hey we have it covered, if we rely on another cloud it's on use to build in redundancy and reliability atop it so as not to burden you, the app developer who is paying us to take care of operations and scaling.

What would be interesting to me about an Amazon outage being behind a heroku outage would be to keep a tally, and if heroku didn't manage to build in more reliability to be resilient to even an amazon outage in a particular region, to question whether they were a good fit.
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"Also, there's also the simple "If Apple, Twitter and Facebook do it, bad luck, we gotta play along" rule."

lolwat. no such thing.
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I hate to be that guy but it's Streisand, not Strisand.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
I agree that this is a very serious assault. My intention was not to downplay this legislation but to point out how it passed so easily in a population of 85 million. Their priorities are fending off starvation. i.e. they are being kicked while they are down.
This Venture Beat piece is a riff of a TechCrunch article which is a riff off of a Al-Jazeera aggregation...the source article, I assume, is in Arabic:
http://www.addisadmassnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&...

Here is a blogger (a lecturer at Arba Minch University) who the Al-Jazeera aggregation links to; he has some interesting insights on what it means for the average Ethiopian:

https://endalk.wordpress.com/2012/05/28/the-new-ethiopian-te...
You certainly can suggest it, I already tried it though. ;)

Scala ends up more like the worst aspects of haskell and go combined, rather than the best aspects of both.
"beloved internet celebrity"

We've also had non-internet celebrities for a long time, not to mention politicians, etc. Trying to go after one of them is going to be a bad time too.

The issue is when you try to use the law to go after someone with more _power_ than you.

The Oatmeal's power is their internet fans, but obviously FunnyJunk thought they had the same power and were on equal footing.

You probably have not been following this issue as long as others, but do you realize that in May 2011 that FunnyJunk's admin sent out a message to all of their users asking them to harass the Oatmeal?

"The FunnyJunk owner known as Admin responded with a message to all users “the Oatmeal wants to sue funnyjunk and shut it down! He thinks we're nothing more than dirty content thieves...Contact Oatmeal anyway you can!" and provided links to The Oatmeal's e-mail and Facebook page.[1] This triggered spamming by FunnyJunk users and a flame war with The Oatmeal readers."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oatmeal_and_FunnyJunk_legal...
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I have always wanted to build this where people can create interactive resumes and not just old style boring word document resume. Got some ideas but never formalized so far. I still own the domain though :)
Apple has a very good and easy to use recycling program. They send you a shipping label, you walk into any FedEx and mail it to them. Simples. These days they even give you a gift card if the machine has any value.

The Apple stores accept smaller Apple products for recycling like batteries and iPods. I suspect they don't accept the larger items due to local laws on toxic waste management.

So really there isn't any excuse not to recycle your Apple product at EOL if you so desire.
pieinterest.com:

Pinterest for pies. (Just kidding. I don't remember why I bought it, but I did.)
Don't you guys remember school at all? The school has the legal right to force you, especially at the age of nine, to obey any number of arbitrary rules and instructions.

When you think of it from an adult perspective, the idea that an arbitrarily-chosen authority figure can walk into the room, tell you to put your hands on your head for no reason, and if you don't put your hands on your head then you get punished, is pretty weird. But children have fewer rights than adults and there's no good way around that except to suck it up and wait a few years.
I'm on the fence. On the one hand, the new MBP is a fantastic machine and if I pay the premium for the 16GB of RAM, I'm probably going to be set for years.

That said, I'm currently running the original Late 2008 Unibody Macbook Pro. It's survived for four years because I've been able to, over time, upgrade the RAM, replace the spinning disk with an SSD, and replace the aging battery. SSDs weren't available when I purchased the machine, but because it uses standard connections the upgrade was easy. I didn't pay an Apple premium for RAM, I waited a few years and the price dropped even more. And the battery was a 2-second replacement.

I don't know if I'm comfortable giving that ability up.
Going on last week's outage of 2 hours and last night's of 8 hours, that puts June's uptime at ~98.6%.
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Looking at Angular in more detail makes me want to port Plunker over. It would be a neat test of the framework since I find myself hitting some tricky areas in Backbone.js and in others wishing for a more prescriptive harness.
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While I love Linux and use it for both work and home. I'm for Newegg. A policy is a policy and not all customers are skillful enough to reload a different OS. I don't think any Linux vendors(Dell, System76,etc) will happily accept returns after you installed Windows on it.
The best could be that we can buy machines with Linux pre-loaded, or certain distro certified. For instance, we choose a PC/laptop, and it's certified with Windows7 and Ubuntu 12.04 both, then you're safe to choose either, otherwise you're on your own.
Not to mention Newegg is just a market place instead of the vendor.
Well, that's an interesting perspective. But I don't think it's either desirable in itself or necessary for consistency with any higher principle, so I disagree.
I agree in part.

But the cynical side of me see's this: The base device isn't wildly overpriced; their "upgrades" are. I upgraded my macbook Pro to 8gb Ram for 50 bucks. The same from Apple was 200.

I think - at least in part - they see an opportunity to incentivize "upgrading" at time of purchase and boosting their profits. Not an unreasonable business move - just feels a bit scumbag.
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>Dogboy99: Was this a special one-time exception because Newegg was getting bad press?

>Newegg: [Yes]

Hilarious. Is the left hand not talking to the right or what?

From the consumerist's first followup:

>Thanks, Newegg, and let's hope that no one has to get out the Internet pitchforks and torches to get your employees to follow their own policies from here out.
This is the crux of the entire issue, crystalized perfectly.

If you are going to carry multiple product lines, then why would their features converge? I see no reason to get into the closed vs open debate - this is Apple we're talking about.

But why would they turn the Mac Book pro into a MacBook Air with higher specs? Why not get rid of all the branding distinctions and let the consumer spec out the machine, with a few default configurations for those who don't want to think about specs?
I've uploaded your picture to FunnyJunk, because that is exactly the kind of stuff they are looking for.

Thank you.
G+ has a higher net growth rate than Facebook sustaining that is all it takes to win.

Granted, that's hard, but social networks take a while to grow and a while to die, but Google+ supposely has 200 million users vs FB's 900 million and it's far younger. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websi...)
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A place that will have meny services for business (and buzy) people. Like a summary of books, of daily news, personal assistants, reservation and booking services.
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I see what you're saying, but how far do we take this? If I upgrade to Mountain Lion in July, am I no longer covered? Dual-boot to Windows? Seems ripe for abusing.
I agree, but Newegg didn't stand strong when the first case got some attention. They should have remained strong and just enforced the policy knowing that in 3-4 weeks most people would have forgot about the instance any ways.

It now becomes one of those cases where if you are trying to return the laptop you are just pissed off because you feel like they aren't doing everything that they can. It's a catch-22 in a way. You just got to be consistent.
They've always had a public bandwidth limit, though, even for paid users.

And this change hardly affects that anyway, except for being an inconvenience.
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Kapsl.com - This has been everything from a todo list, ticket tracker, and team planner down to an analytics package. I believe this domain name is cursed because I can't seem to finish any of the projects I start with it.
I think it would be interesting to build a game like EVE which maps the management of spaceships and cargo to the management of real world businesses like a toilet seat manufacturer in Iowa.

While users of the game are creating distribution networks and building custom ERP solutions they would really be managing businesses (without their direct knowledge). If you were really successful in the game then you would find yourself managing the logistics of a much larger real world company.

I guess the challenge would be to create game mechanics that mapped in a way to real world business constraints that made sense.
tinyact.com:
an ad network where advertisers would pay for micro actions performed by users on their site (like downloding a pdf, staying on the site for a period of time, coming back a number of times, etc);

graffly.com:
a Groupon for affiliate marketing offers;

crosscookie.com:
a service where SaaS could exchange cookie information about their paying members and use that information to target display advertising on ad exchanges;

peeknpoke.com:
a service where you could write an essay/blogpost and ask friends to review it;

Most of these are offline now.
dronedelivery.com - a bit futuristic and never intended to be developed by myself.
As long as other OEMs and other industry leaders don't follow Apple's lead on this, I'm fine.

I won't need a retina display in the near future unless Visual Studio or vim suddenly require it.

(and I really don't see that happpening -ever)
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3. If you have exhausted your family and friends route, you could try marketing to people who have tried to learn to touchtype online, but given up. Your USP is about not playing gimmicky games, but about learning to touchtype WHILST you are using your computer like you normally would (which I like).

4. A well targeted Reddit ad might go down well...
Unbanned?

Latest statement from the school.

http://www.argyll-bute.gov.uk/news/2012/jun/statement-school...

Statement on school meals from Argyll and Bute Council
Published Date: 15 Jun 2012 - 10:53
Updated: 14:19 - 15 June 2012

Statement from Cllr Roddy McCuish, Leader of Argyll and Bute Council

"There is no place for censorship in this Council and never will be whilst I am leader. I have advised senior officers that this Administration intends to clarify the Council's policy position in regard to taking photos in schools. I have therefore requested senior officials to consider immediately withdrawing the ban on pictures from the school dining hall until a report can be considered by Elected Members. This will allow the continuation of the "Neverseconds" blog written by an enterprising and imaginative pupil, Martha Payne which has also raised lots of money for charity.

But we all must also accept that there is absolutely no place for the type of inaccurate and abusive attack on our catering and dining hall staff, such as we saw in one newspaper yesterday which considerably inflamed the situation. That, of course, was not the fault of the blog, but of the paper.

We need to find a united way forward so I am going to bring together our catering staff, the pupils, councillors and council officials - to ensure that the council continues to provide healthy, nutrious and attractive school meals. That "School Meals Summit" will take place later this summer.

I will also meet Martha and her father as soon as I can, along with our lead councillor on Education, Michael Breslin to seek her continued engagement, along with lots of other pupils, in helping the council to get this issue right. By so doing Martha Payne and her friends will have had a strong and lasting influence not just on school meals, but on the whole of Argyll & Bute."
That's nonsense. First of all, there's basically no way that botching an OS install should be able to damage hardware, and for anything other than a hard drive problem the vast majority of retailers will accept returns with the drive removed (for privacy purposes). Even more importantly, though, the written Newegg policy allows customers to install a different OS without voiding the warranty; the problem is that Newegg is apparently doing a very bad job at educating their CSR's of what their policies actually are.
For work, I've not had a laptop last more than 3 years before dying, but I have a habit of punishing them. My current MBP (bought a couple of months ago as I wanted the top end Sandy Bridge with all the kinks ironed out rather than a 1.0 Ivy Bridge model) I'm hoping will make it to 4. It's an experiment, never had a mac laptop before for work (my last mac laptop was a PowerBook Duo 280c).

Strangely I still occasionally use a Sony Vaio SRX51p/B from 2001 occasionally for light surfing or IRC over SSH and that works fine apart from the battery.
Using highly directional antennas on the transmitter should be able to accomplish similar results without increasing the cost of the wristbands.
As someone who keeps and upgrades, I appreciate what you are saying. Is the profitably addressable market of keeper-upgraders large enough to justify laptops made larger by interconnects?
That's been their aim for decades, really. The original 1984 Macintosh was both praised and criticized, at the time, for its all-in-one, closed-box design.
TheOatmeal has done a detailed pros and cons analysis on that habit, coming to the conclusion it should not be done. My apologies for not linking, but I can't access it from work.
"get back to what I love doing which is exposing the industry for the giant cesspitt it is."

Your words reveal that you are not the altruist you pretend to be. I want to believe you, take you seriously, and help you, but from the beginning all I have seen is self promotion.
> I'm for Newegg. A policy is a policy

That would be reasonable if newegg listed an OS change as a reason for invalidating a warranty. The problem is their policy and public statements say it is completely ok, but privately they say it is not.

Newegg has stated that:

1. only modifications to the hardware invalidate the warranty

2: and newegg has specifically gone on the record to state that installing linux does not invalidate the warranty.
hehe - you could branch out into offering different computations of π
Yeah but at least two of those immediately jump out at me as "not startups" unless you count startup as "company that happens to do tech" which I don't.