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Basically all services have a group of satisfied users and a group of unsatisfied users.

What blows a story like this up (as much as hitting the front-page of HN is 'blowing up') isn't that a service failed to meet the needs of one blogger, but rather that the people running the service respond to criticism (in public) sounding more like petulant children than professionals.

As someone not into blogging, I'm not that familiar with WPEngine, but based on comments here that link to various twitter comments now I suddenly have a negative-leaning opinion of them. Primarily because they couldn't take a negative review without calling the poster a "hater". (FWIW, a lot of my negative opinion is tied up in this stupid word, which IME comes out as a last resort when the person using it knows there's a lot of truth to what the other person is saying but they refuse to acknowledge it for whatever emotional reasons).
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If you're posting 10-16 posts a day and you forcibly put each of these into 100% of your fans, you're going to shrink your base. If you did that to me, I'm going to hide or Unlike your page. If you emailed me those posts, I'd be hitting unsubscribe in half a day. The Facebook News Feed isn't an RSS reader, and the Like button isn't Subscribe.

I would suggest just posting once a day, and using the Promoted Posts for the occasional big news that you want to make sure everyone reads.

Facebook pages isn't a panacea for brands or publishers -- not by a long shot. That panacea is one of those Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas.
one example:

http://blog.rubymotion.com/post/30514580062/rubymotion-succe...
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They detect that and use swipe-authorization in those cases. But you can, and probably should, use the chip in Europe/Asia/Latin America where chip readers are widespread.

The banks have been distributing FAQs with all of these answers for years, btw.
Apple like most large company's have a lot of R&D products that never see the light of day. Deciding which of those to take all the way to consumers is a huge part of what makes or breaks a tech company and I suspect we have already seen some slight changes. Even if it's just 'new iPad' vs 'iPad 3' style changes.
I think this quote explains it nicely:

>I used to get a great deal from using Facebook—but I understood it to be a two-way reciprocal arrangement because I was driving traffic back to Facebook as well, and reinforcing their brand awareness with prominent widgets on our blog
Aliyun is derived from the Android Open Source Project (AOSP). In intent and execution, it is much the same as OPhone, which is another Android-derived OS used in China.

Neither one violates licensing terms for AOSP.

There are many devices that make use of AOSP for a wide range of purposes, from the well-known Amazon Kindle, which competes with Android, to in-vehicle systems you might never know run AOSP.

If you look at the Open Handset Alliance membership, you will find several that either sell OPhone devices, or develop and integrate OPhone system software. And yet Google objects to none of that. Curious, no?
Being able to play multiple games at once is the killer feature. Without that it's just not fun in any sustainable way. The free version is a very limited demo in which you can do no more than test whether you like the game.
You have an odd definition of "paying customers".
>One thing that annoys me about software culture in general is how, by virtue of being a programmer, people are also political scientists, economists, biologists, chemists, astronomers, manufacturing experts, doctors, nutritionists, sociologists, anthropologists, and the grand poobah of dismissing speech because of the way it's phrased.

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Small Business Owners : do you have a need for this service?
If you are a small business owner (less than 500 employees) do you have a need for this service? If you could please fill out this survey. All submissions are held with strict confidentiality.

http://fluidsurveys.com/surveys/jd-Z/company-vulnerability-market-feedback/

Thank you.
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The biggest problem with Unity (for ME!!!!) is its performance, I have issues with how it behaves on a dual screen. Otherwise its perfectly fine. It's the OS X dock on the left hand side. To me, Metro is a larger start menu that's faster than the other ones and I don't use the full screen metro apps on my desktop or laptop, although they make perfect sense on a tablet; although I'm sure some people will and it will be fine. A lot of people maximize their windows and use them, so why not give them no chrome and just all window.
We are hosting our blog on WPEngine and you guys increased the response speed of our blog a lot compared to other hosting providers! We used to spend hours maintaining the blog and make sure it runs reliably, and deploying a new version used to be scary in the absence of a checkpoint mechanism, but you guys solved this problem well.

I can understand that the customer is frustrated with having to change his code to move from a VPS environment to a cloud environment, but that is the unfortunate truth when scaling. Either you 1) get closer to the real hardware and throw resources at it (more ram, vps, or dedicated machine) or 2) change your code to be horizontally scalable on light cloud instances.

Maybe this is chance to create a help-page that explains to users what resource limits they should stay below (memory, cpu, queries) to handle peaks in traffic and how to identify problem points (bad SQL queries, hungry plugins).
How is anyone even surprised about this? If you're making money off of someone else's platform, it's only a matter of time before they're gonna ask for a cut.
"From a customer service perspective, this comment leaves a really bad taste in my mouth.

You guys say right on your home page that you're "infinitely scalable." [...] The (strong) implication being that any WordPress configuration will perform better on WPEngine than on an alternative hosting platform."

I agree with your general point that, from the standpoint of the entrepreneur, "the customer is always right" should be words to live by. On the other hand, in the paas industry, it should be axiomatic, i.e., understood by all competent parties, that horizontal scaling (the "infinitely scalable" bit) manifestly will NOT address problematic architectures, n+1 queries, full table scans, poorly/non-indexed schemas, etc.

This, to me, is not blaming the customer, it's laying out in reasonable terms assumptions any competent developer or software entrepreneur should understand long before they employ a paas.

Your larger point, though, is valid: even after bracketing the given assumptions of what the responsibility of a paas truly is, better communication up front could temper expectations as to what "infinitely scalable" (a bold phrase, to be sure) really means to the individual customer. It doesn't mean a paas can fix a application that locks the datbase for a full second per query, etc. It does likely mean (I'm assuming here, I have no experience with WPEngine) spinning up new instances and handling increased loads should be Heroku-simple.

In this case, I think WPEngine is taking the hit for what they should (bad communication on the support side) and explaining in real terms what paas's can and can't do. There's a difference between "blaming the customer" and simply being honest about what the bottom-line issue is. NOT addressing this side of it may have long-term implications if another customer comes along with similar expectations. Being clear about what the client's responsibility is doesn't necessarily equate to "blame."
Saying that DKIM doesn't adequately verify an email is genuine ignores the point of DKIM which is to weed out emails that clearly aren't genuine.

So Gmail can simply deadpool hundreds of fake paypal phishing emails. That doesn't mean the occasional one that gets through by fooling DKIM is authentic - but the security benefits exist.

Unfortunately, in quibbling over the headline, which you are free to do, you argued that anti-spam has nothing to do with security.

Simply put keeping most of the spam that purports to be from paypal.com out of an inbox is a security issue, even if a determined spammer can thwart dkim via dns shenanigans.

US CERT seems to agree: http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/268267
His point is still valid...

just for the wrong reason.

And you are wrong also, by the way, the Facebook product we are talking about right now is the ATTENTION of the users, not the users themselves. They CAN sell users... but that's not what the feed does.

I told you all of that to tell you this... Facebook needs to sell a high quality product.

Now the author's assertion is that he should be allowed to lower the quality of Facebook's product because it should be his right. I'm not sure I agree with that.
Also, to add, most customers actually don't run via NAS - we have /nas/ in the paths for other historical reasons.
The verdicts of 10 doctors of the same field, in the same era about the same patient are not exactly independent variables.
While the Bible definitely shows a pattern of preaching to specific groups, as soon as there's an organized religious system, there's a method for outsiders to receive full benefits. Moses allowed foreigners to participate in passover (Ex 12:48) and other sacrificial ordinances (Ex 22:18). While certain rites were only performed by priests, who were from a particular family, the benefits of those rites applied to everyone in the nation (see Num 15:25-26). Likewise, immediately after Jesus' resurrection, both Jewish and non-Jewish believers received the same spiritual gifts (Acts 10:45) and the same salvation (Rom 1:16, Gal 3:28).

Interestingly, the early LDS allowed blacks full membership with no limitations (for example, Elijah Abel was a black LDS priest in 1832.) The Book of Mormon describes blacks as cursed (2 Nephi 5:21) but allowed to come to the Lord just like anyone else (2 Nephi 26:33). And it makes the anti-racism statement "revile no more against them because of the darkness of their skins" (Jacob 3:8-9). Joseph Smith himself was an abolitionist (D&C 101:79).

But Brigham Young declared that if Utah received statehood, it wouldn't be Congress' business whether or not they had slaves or how they treated them (Journal of Discourses 4:39-40). He also stated that the penalty for mixed marriage is death on the spot (JoD 10:110), and that blacks couldn't hold the priesthood until after all of the whites did, at which point they would actually turn white (JoD 7:290, 337). Wilford Woodruff (4th LDS prophet) said that the only way someone in a mixed marriage could have salvation was to be beheaded, and for all of his children to be killed as well; there's no "proxy baptism" option present here.

By the 1950s, the common view was that blacks were cursed because they had not behaved valiantly in the pre-mortal existence, but that they would eventually receive full blessings. Then in 1978 a "revelation" allowed blacks to hold the priesthood. There are still some vestiges of the 1950s view, though; a friend told me of someone else in his mission who, after visiting a non-committal black family, complained that "n___ers were fence-sitters in the pre-existence and they're fence-sitters now".

So, as you say, it's complex. Official LDS doctrine (specifically coming from "prophets") regarding blacks went from a little racist to extremely racist to kinda racist to not racist. Individual LDS attitudes have always had some variability.
I can't say for sure, but I believe Doug Cutting's Trevni format is already in the beta but it's a slow version. Impala is initially focusing on architecture, I'm sure columnar format will have attention eventually.

https://github.com/cutting/trevni
I wouldn't worry about it, they're probably the same ones that still disable JS or use NoScript in 2012.
>>I object to Facebook making this decision for me.

Facebook makes a lot of decisions for you. It's a free service, so it's their prerogative. If you don't like it, you can always deactivate your account like I did.
Tesco and Sainsbury's have 1 or 2 hour delivery windows and different charges (£10 or under) depending on day and time of day. Tuesday/Wednesday evenings (7-9pm) tend to be free for orders over £100 with Sainsbury's. We tend to do monthly deliveries including lots of the heavy/bulky items or non-perishables (tins, drinks, nappies). We then pick up the fresh items every day or two from local supermarkets/grocers.

Cleaners are £8-£10/hour (in SW London anyway), ours takes 2.5 hours for our 3 bed flat. They'll often do ironing too.

Couldn't ever go back to living without a washing machine though!
My though about the DWS. I would have loved to attend but:

- It was ridiculously expensive

- It was on weekdays. So you could only go if it was your job to be there (either watching or presenting)
The supply has gotten really bad again since the switchover to 512MB base RAM has been made public knowledge. You ordered yours just in time.
I'll consider that a challenge...

To any that have experience getting comments data from HN -- what's the fastest, most polite way to do this? And am I correct in remembering that there's some aggressive rate-limiting for crawling the site?
The costs are marginal at the point of periodicity.

example: reseller> pays adobe every month/quarter
example: adobe> pays versioning costs every 24 months

Provided you shrink the window of analysis, you can say "already paid for inventory, just amortizing it". But in that case, you don't have unlimited supply, you just have whatever you paid for.

In the case of adobe, despite having "unlimited copies" of CS5, they would (eventually) run out of supply of salable product if they did not version into CS6. So while its trivially true they could make unlimited copies of CS5, its not a great idea to perceive this as unlimited supply. The supply that matters is the part people are willing to pay for--this is the marginal information content-- not the marginal bit content of what is delivered.

In some ways I don't think we're disagreeing, just focusing on different elements of the analysis. My larger point was exactly that -- keep in mind the broader elements that are considered as relevant by CxO.

THe CEO of adobe makes decisions, for examople, about how often to incur the marginal cost of versioning the next Creative Suite, how rapidly and how much to budget, etc. COO of facebook looks at the marginal cost of data centers for the next 200 million users, etc, in part because s/he is looking at timeframes and scales which are not the same at the level of a project team, etc.
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You are absolutely right. This is not our production app (ours is at 12 IIRC) but some internals app I've been playing with.
As my two cents, although I am a Linux engineer, I don't want to manage a Web cluster just for Wordpress, so I use WPEngine in production for about 10 sites and it has worked very well and support has been sufficiently responsive.

Reading about this, I get concerned when people conflate "performance" and "scalability". Performance is about time-based metrics such a requests-per-second. Scalability is about the question of whether I can add more hardware proportionately to my request load and continue to perform. WPEngine's marketing claims are about scalability, not performance.

This guy's WPEngine code was apparently doing a 189k row sort when serving certain requests, which is not going to perform well on any hosting platform, including DIY.
Its a funny thing. When I read your comment I remember it saying exactly that on the Facebook Sign up page. Something along the lines of "Its free (and always will be)".
Valid point. What I keyed on in the article is that it is a complex install, and that tells me that maybe his CMS is working against him. In those cases I like to remove the impediment and simplify the data model (which should simplify the code).
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This post is pretty overboard with its exaggeration. But one thing I find interesting is the concept that Facebook is a paid publishing platform. They'll deliver your posts to 15% of your followers as a freebie, but to reach 100%, you pay. And I hadn't thought of it that way before.

That perspective actually gives me increased hope for Tent (https://tent.io), the decentralized social networking protocol that could one day be a Facebook alternative. When Tent was announced here on HN, a common criticism was that if you're popular, and you host your Tent server yourself, you end up paying a lot for the bandwidth cost of sending each post to thousands or millions of followers. Whereas the perception is that on a centralized social network you can send a post to millions of followers for free.

For now, that's still the case on Twitter, but on Facebook, apparently not. If you really want significant reach, you pay to publish even to people who already (by liking) signed up to follow you. So the situations aren't actually that different. I guess there really is no free lunch.
I guess at some points I can judge a company based on where it's from, especially with the political system in China.
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Ok just so you know the default cost factor for bcrypt-ruby is a reasonable choice, and the cost factor you've used here is unreasonable.
Sounds like a job for Sentiment Analysis [1]. Modern systems are pretty good at discerning negative from positive comments.

You could probably find a way to mark negative and positive comments. Whether the resulting algorithm would be fine-grained enough to semi-reliably mark 'middlebrow dismissal,' I really don't know. Actually, as somebody who has worked on that stuff in the past, I don't think it would be very easy.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentiment_analysis
The rest of this thread is worth a read. To summarize: very soon chipped cards that are swiped instead of chip-and-pinned will be far more likely to trip the fraud alarm.
I know this guy. I competed with him at a hackathon two months ago. He built of automated power tracking tools to tell you your power usage and would turn off lights and things. Took home second place. I ended up winning with my solar subsidy ipad calculator (told if you could save money in your local area if you bought an electric car and install solar panels in your home over gasoline and unsubsidized power). Was fun as hell. Pounded out a lot of code over a few beers on a weekend.
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Sure thing. The problem we're attempting to address is not necessarily the HTML/CSS/Javascript component of creating a tooltip, but rather the creation of a system and its continued maintenance.

When we hand rolled our own product tour code for a previous project, what we quickly learned was that maintenance was a nightmare. As soon as layouts updated or changed, editing the tooltips we had created already was tedious.

We, however, have plans for other features that we think could really add a lot more value. So if you don't see it now, perhaps later on when we roll them out.
You are right but you and I know the Square brand so I won't have a problem to use it but here in canada any time Banks give you a brand new card with smart chips , they tell you to stop using the swipe system because it's not as safe as the smart chips... Guess what!? my mom stops and refuses to use a swipe system of any kind....
I love git-annex. It is worth pointing out that the XMPP notification is still under heavy development. I don't want to turn people away from git-annex but I also do not want people to get their hopes up for a feature that is not complete yet: Joey described the xmpp work in his most recent blog entry and said it is "really the last big road-bump to making it be able to sync computers across the big, bad internet."

http://git-annex.branchable.com/design/assistant/blog/day_11...
The problem is, that's really a different use case/value proposition than Square has in the US.

Square is a godsend for small businesses there. Square's all over Portland, for instance, not just at yard sales and craft faires but in real businesses because it's an absolutely disruptive form of payment that lets them avoid some onerous fees and setup costs, and it lets them accept debit because debit piggybacks on the credit system in the US.

But it's pretty crippled for that here in Canada. I know several small business, including my wife's, who were dying for Square to come here, because getting set up with a proper payment terminal in Canada is obscenely expensive for a small business.

But there's absolutely no way that they could use this as offered, with zero debit support, ubiquitous customer demand for debit usage, and no support for chip-reading in an environment where chip usage will be mandatory in 2 years and in which not using a chip already causes credit card transactions to be declined as 'suspicious' at a fairly high rate.
A lot of retailers I've been to require you to show government issued ID to prove your identity when your chip fails. Some downright refuse to accept your credit card.
Can we someday move away from password on the server, at least as an option? Give me the option of setting up my account with a public key instead of a password, and logging in by demonstrating that I have access to the corresponding private key.

One might object that this would mean I could only access my account from computers and devices where I keep a copy of my private key. True--but I'm ALREADY in that position for most sites, because I use long random passwords that I manage with a password manager running on my computers and devices.
Good lord the App Store search is lame. I get three results when searching for "Letterpress" and this game isn't among them. In fact, I just spent about 5 minutes trying to find this game at all and I can't. Boo.
I could be mistaken, but my impression was that the surface launch date was set first, review embargoes were timed to that, and, if anything, Apple timed the iPad mini event to step on the Surface launch rather than vice versa.
Ask H: How much developer time to allot for R&D?
Like most of you I'm sure, our team has a never ending list of requests and tasks. We have customers and management to keep happy. We have pressure to deliver these tasks. But as we plow through our backlog week after week, it can sometimes feel like technology is passing us by. Most of us do things in our spare time at home, but I feel like there should be some company time for this kind of work.

I find that management is supportive of this type of thing in principle, but that doesn't always mean they will accept having project work delayed. The other issue is that some developers will take advantage of the time to goof off.

I'm curious to hear from other people if you have a strategy for R&D and other types of "free" time for developers? Or, if you are a developer, how does it work at your company? For example, learning a new language, investigating some new framework or just some wild idea.
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