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On the other hand it would seem that this guy would have been empowered even without arduino. In the video he mentioned he has a background in robotics.
It feels like this linkbait title was upvoted by haters without reading the article. Complete FUD before Windows 8 has even officially launched.
Yeah, we'll manage it exactly as you mention and do some cleanup.

As for the idea of webhooks, in our case, we wouldn't need the content, just the meta data. That's what we already do anyway: we only store references to the S3 files we created. The idea is that it simplifies be able to run multiple Web server instances by having this user generated content offsite.

My concern was really more about us confirming what we receive to you so you could do the cleanup of non acknowledged files instead of us doing it. What you are suggesting is an additional verification that can have value but doesn't address the question of constituency between what ends up in our S3 buckets and what we end up being aware off in our app. In any case, no big worry but I'll email you details.
I like this review. It's genuinely quirky, and no bullshit.

Honestly despite all the quibbles (across all the reviews) I think this is a big win for MS. The praise for the fit and finish, the feeling of the kickstand, the click in of the covers, the covers themselves - it's astronomical. Words like 'meticulous' and 'remarkable' are massive praise here. This might be revision one, but sounds like it definitely holds its own against the iPad. MS has made a product that is extremely, extraordinarily confident. And that's the most important thing really - because they've lacked or seemed to lack confidence against Apple for a while, and it's been their biggest problem.

Gosh I'm excited. This only bodes well, for MS and for us. A reinvigorated MS will be an amazing thing to experience - it's time for an end to this boring iEverything monoculture! I personally cannot wait for Apple to get their smugness rubbed right back in their snotty faces.
Poor also includes the children of the poor. Who, in western society, are unable to earn much income irrespective of talent due to their age. The majority of pirates are poor adults, and children. Yes, the adults can work harder, better, but the children can't.

Kim isn't a saint in my view, but let's not doubt how far and wide his mega site spread the free content net. There's a reason so many love the guy.
Then compare it to Page.ly.

Same basic proposition: fully managed Wordpress.

They cost less.

And their service roflstomps WPEngine's.
Not really, IMHO.

What are you going to do with it? Who knows, we don't know what the capabilities are. I also have an instinctive dislike of the odd GPU-driven boot process where something open and hackable like u-boot could have been used.
How is this anything other than a rehash of the Asus Transformer line of tablets, with winRT added?

[edit] Off topic - Meh, just realised I've been hellbanninated. Oh well, I might be able to get more work done now.
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Have any native english publications covered this story? Strange that the only new source to publish a follow-up to what was a very popular story would be some random Norwegian newspaper.
FWIW, I spoke to ZippyKid. They (perhaps wisely) don't handle multisite installations.
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SJ was famously against things before he was for them; the surest way to figure out what Steve-era Apple would do next was to listen for him to say some variation of "this is a bad market and Apple is not interested in it."

Tablets: "What are these things good for besides surfing the Web on the toilet?"

eBooks: “It doesn’t matter how good or bad the product is, the fact is that people don’t read anymore..."

Video iPod: "You can't watch a video and drive a car...We're focused on music."
Apparently Seth Godin already received more than 40 applications to make his app for free. Let's make them collaborate instead of compete...
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Tons of great stats here... Much appreciated.
It does support multiple user accounts (yes, not synced to AD, but better than Android and iOS) and FS encryption out of the box. MDM is baked into the platform; again, no Group Policy, but it can be managed through System Centre. It supports the concept of a mouse, it has USB, it can (I think) integrate with Sharepoint.
I think the journalist here is confused for no good reason. Perhaps because he likes to make his own definitions of things. Windows 8 is the new release of Windows. It will be delivered in two builds: ARM and x86. The former being more limited and called Windows RT. They share the Metro UI but not very much of the traditional desktop UI. There. That's it. It's not really confusing at all.
My experience with WPEngine : Jason Cohen saved my ass.

We went live on a WebbyNode VPS, thought we had configured our system well and suddenly we hit the top spot on HN. The server was on fire and Jason personally showed up and worked on migrating our site over.

Your configuration may have posed problems, you may have had what seems like a shitty support experience, but this public bashing doesn't help anyone in the startup community and reads as if it's motivated by emotions rather than a real problem-focussed attitude.

Give these guys a break and work with them one on one to find a solution to your problems. I'm SURE they'll move mountains to make you happy because that's in the team's DNA.
This is wrong. You're unable to install desktop apps, but there are desktop apps bundled, including Office Home & Student.
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>"So rather than predicting and pre-empting the dive in social gaming"

I agree with your post, outside of this.

They most definitely predicted it, and cashed out their stock to benefit from it. How else do you explain them cashing out so much, so early? That's the hard part for me to get over.

Other than the shadiness of the VCs and execs, Zynga was a decent idea that didn't work out, like so many before it.
Pfft. This is humbug. He's just conflated the NYT article and his view on Visual Studio. Watch the W8 ads; they're all pretty great.
I am using http://presslabs.com/ to host two of my blogs, one of them is a tech blog that gets a high amount of traffic every day and there has been no migration or downtime problems so far. I couldn't be happier.
It looks like this has disappeared from the front page despite 13 votes in 36 minutes. I assume it was flagged :-(

I understand it's a controversial topic, but I don't think this post violates any of the submission guidelines. If this was flagged, I would really appreciate feedback as to why. I don't want to invest time in future posts that might not see the light of day.

Thanks,
RJM
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While you summed it up in far less words than the author of this post, I'm pretty confident the general consumer would have no idea what you just said.
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I believe it has an RDP client. If it does I'm buying one, if it doesn't I probably won't.
Mostly a discussion topic, tho with a workable flow (assuming I didn't miss anything stupid).
Perhaps not information, but the fact it's reposted on Wired means the article has a larger audience (at least by one--me).
Did something change recently? Every time I've tried to install plan9 in virtualbox or vmware it ran incredibly slow. Not like "wow this is slow" slow, but "there is something broken here" slow. Just the installation took several hours.
If you don't want to use Zoompf (even if they don't follow their own advice), you should take a look at Steve Souders' blog for web performance: http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/

He literally wrote the book on it.
Having open drivers is further enhanced by the limited hardware models, it means more time to focus on getting the most out of the hardware instead of getting the stack to be compatible with different hardware all the time.
Add some contact information and details to your HN profile. :)
Remember the Windows 7 launch party? Their marketing department has some issues if nothing else, and I think that's most of what the complaints ultimately focus on. They seem to have thoroughly blurred the lines between the tablet OS and Windows 8 leading up to launch, possibly just through incompetence in their presentation.
Am I the only person who gets really annoyed with vendors' desire to treat their products' names like personal names with no articles in front? Microsoft: "you can see more, do more and share more with Surface." Apple: "The Retina display on iPad makes everything look crisp and lifelike."

It's weird and unnatural, and -- here I may just be being eccentric -- it gives me the feeling that the companies are trying to manipulate me, hoping that if I keep seeing "Surface" instead of "the Surface" and "iPad" instead of "an iPad" some bit of my brain will start treating those product names like personal names and feel warm and fuzzy and friendly towards the products.

It's weird the way that Anand goes along with this in his article when he's talking about the Microsoft device ("After living with Surface however, I understand the appeal") but not when he happens to mention the Apple one ("I wouldn’t say that it looks better or worse than the iPad, it’s simply different"). So much so that I almost wonder whether Microsoft made it a condition of providing a review device that the review had to avoid ever saying "the Surface" or "a Surface".

As a measure of how unnatural the locution Microsoft's marketing people are trying to push on us is, notice that almost everyone here on HN, commenting on Anand's review that consistently uses MS's preferred form, none the less says "a Surface" or "the Surface" when referring to a particular instance rather than to the brand. [EDITED to add: I am not suggesting that he's showing some kind of deliberate favouritism or that MS asked him not to do the article-dropping thing when referring to competitors' products. I think he says "the iPad" instead of just "iPad" because by now everyone's stopped indulging Apple's marketing department's whims.]
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While I agree "Ponzi scheme" is tossed around a bit too liberally, Zynga is pretty close:

A Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent investment operation that pays returns to its investors from their own money or the money paid by subsequent investors, rather than from profit earned by the individual or organization running the operation. (Wiki)

The fact that the early investors cashed out like kings from the IPO, and later investors shouldered all the losses and may not even recover the liquidation value of the assets is pretty close to the definition. All that is missing is the "fraud" part, but that's a bold accusation and hard to prove. Then again, this story isn't over.
This is a bit of a meta comment but it must really suck to wake up on a random morning and find a blog post like this about your service as the top story on HN.
Seriously old news... I attacked Facebook's 512 bit DKIM key back in 2010: http://blog.jgc.org/2010/06/facebooks-dkim-rsa-key-should-be...
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But... it's not called Metro anymore.

And Windows RT and WinRT are different things.

And there's new tablet offerings of Windows 8 that will be Windows 8 (not just look like them with the Metr... Modern UI) in a few months. If I didn't know that, I'd be pissed in a few months. If I do know that, I'll probably wait to see what the options and pricing are in a few months.

Even for those 'in the know', there's a lot of confusion and decision making.

EDIT: I say this as someone who has fond memories of MS from many years ago, became an antiMS bigot for a bit, and now just would like to see them succeed. Not as a huge fanboy so much, but as someone who likes to see a marketplace of good options/ideas. MS has often botched good tech seemingly because of internal politics, and that's sad to see.
To be fair, any WP hosting company is going to run into issues with non-standard installs, and they're not going to be able to accommodate any setup. If you have a customised WP install, it might not work on this sort of provider, they're optimising for speed, not dealing with, and they probably don't want the headache of trying to support any plugins or modifications that you might bring to WP.

It would make sense for them to offer a dev plan with every production plan though, and let you upload your site, and serve it to a limited no of people as a testing ground. Given their 'Power Tools for Power Users' stuff on their website, they really should consider at least offering staging servers for testing.

I guess at present they're just not a good setup for developers trying to modify WP, and are instead trying to capture the market for hardened WP hosting for mostly vanilla installs.
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Sounds like a great mix of our two majors actual needs in life : relations and fun!!!
No I mean the actual book the example was based on: http://generative-gestaltung.de/

Looks like there is no english version after all!
I worked "one on one" with them for weeks.

Weeks.

They did not move mountains. It was a parade of apathy. As soon as they could flick pass me to WebSiteMovers, they did.

Your positive experience is every bit an emotional one as my negative experience was.
It's unlikely that the average consumer would care much about the difference. Consumers might just want a portable tablet that they can use for email, Internet and read/write Microsoft Office documents. Business users will just use what there IT departments give them and if Windows 8/RT can run their legacy apps, that is a big win.

It might take a few years for Microsoft to adjust, iterate and revise, but I don't think they will let Windows 8 fail.
Recall that it took the XBOX a few years to break into a market with two, very strong, established players (Nintendo, SONY) and now XBOX is leading that market.
Multisite has been part of the base Wordpress install since 3.0.
Give these guys a break and work with them one on one to find a solution to your problems.

In the article it sounds like instead of them trying to work one-on-one to fix the problems, they just outsourced it to a digital removal firm. If that's the response he got, in what way would you expect the OP to be able to work with them one-on-one?
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I guess Seth Godin would like more the idea of a collaborative and open project than just an app made by a random marketing agency for branding.
No. He mean system tools like Task Manager, File Explorer, Power Shell and apps like Notepad, Paint and Calc.
Arguing anything other than differences in levels of exercise/activity and calorie intake has a large mountain of evidence to overcome. The effects of those two are very large, the effects of everything else comparatively small per decades of animal and longitudinal human studies.

Nonsense about antioxidants in the diet is exactly that: nonsense. The weight of evidence suggests that, if anything, ingested antioxidants have a net negative effect on long term health. But there's money to be made keeping up the lie:

http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2012/03/attempting-to-add...

Lastly, beware of pseudo-pop-science that opens with one person's story. People manage to survive cancer without treatment all over the world; one story is not remarkable and tells us nothing. In general the whole blue zones thing has little to no value in any serious consideration of health and longevity: it's about on the same level of credibility as diet fads.
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I was just writing that!

It was on HN too, of course: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1442385

I was surprised then that anyone would be using a 512-bit RSA key in the wild, let alone now.
I couldn't agree more, I hope this collaboration brings something really cool
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"and are instead trying to capture the market for hardened WP hosting for mostly vanilla installs."

I don't know of any large WP installs that would need the benefit of outsourced WP hosting/experts that use 'vanilla installs'. They may exist, but I can't imagine they're a large portion of the market. Perhaps my scope of experience is too narrow in this respect?
Soon we will see an article about how they turn blocks of file data into algebra to save disk space.
"my bloggers"?

How are these blogs related to you?
Back when I used it, MyFax was absolutely critical for pretending we had a fax machine.
Steve Jobs said a lot of bullshit a lot of the time. In retrospect, I think he was trying to throw people off the scent.
So, to recap: I voiced my irritation at a particular word choice, and the conclusions are:

1) I am therefore worse than the Nazis

2) I'm the one who's being unreasonable

3) If something is popular it follows that it is also perfect and cannot be improved in any way.

Thanks for clearing that up.
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It's not biased, they just separated the software and hardware reviews into two separate articles. You can't do a hardware review without mentioning the software briefly, but you can focus on the hardware.
I think it's a matter of how one approaches the issue. With WPEngine, we didn't bounce around e-mail after e-mail.

It took a 10 minute phone call. I knew the names of everyone on my case and they kept me updated through the process.

I'm SURE there was a big fuck up in the support process for the OP. I just feel that there are other ways to skin a cat, particularly in our community where we should be working hard to find constructive solutions to things like this instead of creating a cloud of negativity around young businesses.
I hate this kind of reporting. I read through the entire first page without the slightest clue as to what the article is actually about -- I'm pretty sure it's not all just for one guy's life story.

But by that point I was tired of reading, and quit.

Cut it out with the pathos and human interest, and get some of the real point in there quicker.
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Any reason you're not hosting media on S3? That makes it a lot easier to move hosts, too.
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I can totally understand your negative experience, I have email threads between myself and WPEngine as well as between common customers and WPEngine that prove quite the opposite.

It really sucks that you went through this. I'm just suggesting that you refrain from the public flogging and find another solution. I'm not affiliated with these guys other than as a client and I can tell you that I respect what they bring to the market.
> At this point I stopped reading, as this article became propaganda.

Even if that was true (it's not), how could you know it without reading further?
People view Steve through rose colored glasses and then become indignant whenever those glasses get knocked off. It's selection bias, pure and simple. Steve was wrong about as many things as he was right. The magic of Steve Jobs was in taking something complicated, utilitarian, ugly, and confusing to the average person and making it accessible, beautiful, and enjoyable to use. You apply that formula successfully enough times, across a wide enough range of ideas, you are going to hit some home runs.
context aside, the phrase "the surface" may be meaning a generic surface or a Surface. When I read to myself without the "the", the reading voice reinforces that it's the "MS Surface" product that's being referred to. That's the pro/con of using generic words for products (vs ipad, for example).

When reading, and you see the capital, it's easier to determine what is being referred to, but I often hear it being read in a voice as well, and the lack of articles 'helps' in some way.
It's a convenient shorthand for "bloggers whose websites I host at my own expense because I like and admire their sites".
Actually Facebook serves as an identity layer that allows to avoid people creating fakes too easily, and at the same time protect the identity of players from potential creeps - ie both players have to agree they'd like to get in touch before any contact info is revealed.
As for privacy, the default setting of the app is "me", meaning all activity from the app is invisible to your network.
I also think he would love this collaboration rather than choosing between 40 candidates and throwing the work of 39... I'll put my stone to it, hope it'll reach Seth's ears !
A hosting company without 24 hour support is not a hosting company.

Go with Rackspace. They're expensive compared to budget hosts, but they seem to have an army of sysadmins available 24/7/365 that never say "that's your problem" / "not in scope".

PS: that redirect bug is probably a mismatch of your site_url setting in either wp_blogs, the wp_options table of your primary blog, or the wp-config.php. If the domain set in any of those 3 places doesn't match you get that endless redirect loop. Could also be htaccess sending you to www or no-www, and your config is set the other way. Its an annoyingly common issue when moving MU sites, and they should have been able to fix it.
Steve Jobs was smart enough to pivot when a market opportunity arose, despite what he said previously.
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Or paranoid. Or naive. Or narcissistic.

It might be somewhat feasible if they wanted him to be security engineer, not a devop. Still, he expected they have set up what essentially is an elaborate prank just to send a cold-call email to just one of probably numerous potential candidates.

How likely this is? What would be the risk-to-reward ratio for doing that, considering that many of unsolicited recruiting mails are not even read? Isn't it more feasible for it to be a genuine mistake on their part? Google's not infallible, omnipotent being after all.
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Gmail (possibly Hotmail) put a little lock icon next to DKIM authenticated email from some senders, such as eBay & PayPal and outright reject unauthenticated emails from such domains. They've flaunted this feature in the past

So if an authenticated PayPal email pops up in your Gmail inbox saying you must do this and that to unlock your account, you may be more likely to do so due to the legitimacy of DKIM.
Put simply: cost. Collectively it's a few hundred Gb per month of traffic which is completely covered by my Linode plan.

These days I've put most of the sites behind Cloudflare, which has the effect that a lot of my media is being mirrored in their Sydney DC, which is nice because most of the readership is Australian -- the same reason I went to the Tokyo centre this time.
It (very likely) had nothing to do with Apple and (very likely) everything to do with the fact that they report earnings today.