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I think if you are spending more than $100 a month in VMs you should seriously consider co-locating if you have the skills to support it.

For my side-projects, personal websites and general purpose "whatever" I'm using an in-expensive colo provider(Colo@). For $50 I get 10mbit/s @ 95% (basically, burstable to 100mbps for up to 5% of a month). That's about 3 TB of data transfer which alone would cost hundreds of dollars at EC2. Of course, it is also way more data than most people would use.

The server I bought used on eBay for $365. Its a dual Xeon L5420 (8 hw cores) and has 24 GB of RAM. I run seven or 8 VMs under KVM on it presently. These images are pretty portable and a couple of them I backup regularly to S3; I could recover to an EC2 instance if I lost the box.

I monitor this with an EC2 micro instance and have not had any network outages in 6 months there. If I wanted to run a production site there I would need at least a second machine for redundancy; that would be another $30-40 a month. I'd probably also replicate real-time to a small EC2 instance so that would cost a little (though the incoming B/W to EC2 is free) - I don't do that now as I don't have real "production" data.

Not everyone should do this but if you like servers you should consider it. Another advantage here is that I own the server. If I get in a billing dispute or other issue with my provider they can take me off the network but they cannot hold my server hostage. Also they cannot login to the box - any attempt at social hacking is pretty well doomed.

On the other hand, on the two occaisions I've needed remote hands and the one time I needed a KVM they responded in less than fifteen minutes. It is mind-blowing the level of support you can get with the right provider.
"... Imagine if we optimized every single facet of medical care, from patient admission to discharge, and all intermediary processes, top to bottom..."

Let's separate standardizing and optimizing. A checklist lets you standardize. It does not optimize anything.

As the author continues, he gets into a scheme of various agencies all working together in various ways -- this is the core of the optimization problem. I'd suggest he doesn't have a clue here as to how to actually accomplish this. But still, overall this is a great idea. Standardization in many rote procedures, especially those involving health, is desperately needed.
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Unlike Armin, I think that being more correct is worth some pain because it leads to offering much more in the future.

The alternative is PHP and its fractally bad design, where the legacy of accumulated, unfixed design flaws has made advancement almost impossible--which is why they have PHP 5.4 instead of PHP 6.0. You can add features within the context of those flaws, but at some point there are too many to execute the kind of overhaul you need.

It would be interesting to see someone fork PHP and offer a 'correct' version that's clean and sheds all the baggage.
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I'm not sure on pricing at the moment, but Rackspace CloudFiles use Akami for it's CDN nodes. I'm also not sure how this directly compares to CloudFront, but I thought it was worth noting.
There should be an option to tell you I would not use or pay for this service.
I know this isn't what you want to hear, but you should go see a local lawyer, and bring the the documents from NewCo with you.
The exact wording matters, and it's not something an internet forum can help with ;(
I'm impressed you made it to the front page, congrats on that.
As much as I loathe Java, this is just wishful thinking.
Here are some clips showing how we heuified the office:

strobe effect
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remote control
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Jason will help you with this. Email him.
I use Sublime Text 2 as my primary text editor, and I really like PlainTasks plugin (https://github.com/aziz/PlainTasks) as a way of keep tracking the things I need to do, things I would like to do, and, most important, things I've already done (just to have some sense of accomplishment).

In a side project with so few hours per week, I think anything more complex than this is overkill.
Actually, Solaris does have the daemon() function as of Solaris 11:

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19082-01/819-2243/6n4i098sj/index.html
This story and discussion is the perfect example of how wrong people are when thinking about schools and what's going on in there.

A teacher provides two services: teaching (obviously) and evaluate students to let them know how well they are prepared to pass an official exam.

So cheating or not cheating here is a non-issue except for the student that clearly doesn't know what he's doing. And the the teacher who seems enjoys playing the sheriff's role could be ridiculous, except he doesn't know what he is doing either.

That's a pretty sad story, actually.
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Perhaps not what you were hoping for, yet never-the-less: its up to - you - Mr. Scott. Keep your remembrances of that era alive at your site. If not you, who will?
While I wouldn't shed any tears to see Java disappear from the desktop, it has a massive presence in the Enterprise and that is not due to large deployments of Macs.
Every time I read a Gruber post I can't help but think of these lines from Howard Stern's Private Parts:

The average Howard Stern fan listens for - are you ready for this? - an hour and twenty minutes. The average Stern hater listens for two and a half hours a day. Most common answer? "I want to see what he'll say next."[1]

I subscribe to his RSS feed and can't bring myself to unsubscribe for fear of missing the next really asinine thing that will dribble out of his over-inflated head.

[1]http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119951/quotes?qt=qt0468488
Even better! Congrats on the free pair.
> In previous years these results have been driven primarily by African Americans and Hispanics (groups which don't exist to any significant degree in Europe or Asia)

There aren't many Hispanics in Europe...?
Interesting. Just tried making up a page and saw a bulleted list of info at the top.

You can also start your new article at Special:Mypage/Erlang++.
There, you can develop the article with less risk of deletion,
ask other editors to help work on it, and move it into "article
space" when it is ready.

That points out the userspace pages. However, it's not loud enough. If the risk is so high of deletion/merging in short spans (minutes), then this should be the preferred and well advertised method of creating articles.
You're asking the wrong people.

1. Read "The Lean Startup."

2. Find the cheapest and fastest way to test whether potential customers think you should build it for them. For example, you could make a fake product web page with a "try free" button and count the number of people who click the button.

Asking us is not lean. Asking customers is not lean. Testing customers != asking them. Building it is too expensive a test to be lean.

Gotta run, can't put more words into this, sorry!
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It's an interesting idea.

What do you do where there are going to be multiple lists? EG: Full thickness burns - you do some debridement then use a dressing. Different doctors like different dressings. Some will use a manuka honey dressing; some will use flamazine; some will want to use stuff like inadine or jelonet etc. So now you have a branching checklist?

The companies making dressings have a significant financial drive to be included in the procedure check list - imagine every hospital in the world wanting to use your product - and so you'd need to protect against corruption and external pressure and fake research.
It wasn't so much as they were underclocked, but that Intel's process was so refined that they were often produced over-spec.

The other thing that made them so easy to over-clock was that, unlike the Pentium Pro, II and III, there was no on-chip L2 cache that would malfunction at higher speeds. All you were over-clocking was the CPU.

I had a dual-Celeron system that ran like a champ for the better part of ten years.
I completely agree, having co-located a few projects in my day as well as using dedicated HW through Rackspace.

One of your key points is what turns some people towards more managed services: "skills to support it". I'd add time to that factor as well.

If I had the support staff, I would co-locate in a second. Heck, one of our previous locations was next-door to a Level 3 co-location facility. It was pretty nice to be able to walk 10 feet and access your hardware.
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Of all the things to complain about, you're going after the fact that wikipedia has 15 printed pages about important characters in a cartoon with over 750 episodes? This is a list of important, plot-affecting characters; you're just failing to appreciate the sheer scale.

At the very least complain about the species list if you want something ill-fitting for an encyclopedia.
If there isn't a connection between a procedure and outcomes, it just becomes garbage in/garbage out.
In my experience, Linode is the best roll-your-own you-are-on-your-own cloud provider. Obviously they are aimed at the savvy but it's reliable, cheap while being easy to estimate costs, simple to configure and expand, pretty good documentation, plus it doesn't have the learning curve or linguistic peculiarities of Amazon.

Regarding Rackspace, I've had good experience with them when working at mid-size and larger companies. Unfortunately I've had the opposite experience when functioning as a freelancer, working with startups, or as an entrepreneur myself. Rackspace didn't even respond to sales inquiries. Initially I figured this was a strangely repeated fluke, but other small companies and entrepreneurs I've spoken to have reported the exact same thing, where they send an inquiry to Rackspace or ask to speak with a sales engineer, and they get no response. Nothing, zip, nada. I find that very strange, and am speculating RS no longer wants to deal with the growing pains and frequent support requests of startups, but it certainly makes the decision to stick with Linode or EC2 much easier.

I don't have much experience with dedicated anymore, but have repeatedly heard good things about ServInt and SingleHop. Have also heard good things about Firehost for a managed cloud provider. I would love to hear others opinion and experience on any of the aforementioned companies though.
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In this case that's a premise, not an argument, i.e. not a fallacy.
At a $1,000 a license? I don't think so.
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The Hitler trick might make you feel superior, but do this a couple of more times and you'll have destroyed a potentially valuable asset just because you want to feel smug.

If you want to do A/B testing, do A/B testing. Don't pee in your own swimming pool.
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OP does eventually talk about A/B testing in order to optimize the checklists. I assumed he was just getting ahead of himself.
Xamarin does some impressive work. They are becoming to C# what PhoneGap is to Javascript/HTML (license fee not withstanding).
Maybe he thinks that only stupid people cheat stupidly.
The burden of proof for a reprimand at a university is a lot lower than in a court. Every university takes a hard line on cheating (or at least, wants to be perceived that way), and all other things being equal they will side with their faculty over their students. So no, I doubt very seriously that "due process" at the university level is going to require harder evidence than this, until the student is thrown out of the school and dad's lawyer decides to sue, and even then it won't be hard to materialize a contract signed by the student at matriculation that alleviates the university of any kind of obligation to be fair about these kinds of punishments.

The likelihood of a student being "framed" is a lot lower than the likelihood of the student just being stupid and expecting not to get caught. When bringing this up before the university ethics board the student will have to do more than argue that anybody could have registered under their name. There will probably need to be some proof that somebody else did it. If you think otherwise, wait until you or somebody you know winds up on the wrong side of a university ethics panel. You'd be surprised how very little it takes to get in trouble and how difficult it can be to get out of trouble. A friend of mine got brought before an ethics panel for hacking, by simply sending the IT staff an email about a page with a vulnerability. Nothing was exploited and nobody was told about it except one person in the IT department. It took five profs arguing against the absurdity of the proceedings to get the sentence reduced from being kicked out to "just" one semester of probation.

In short, the prof doesn't need the confession. The student would be wise to write one and play up that this is their first time cheating. Trying to fight this like a legal battle will only make the school that much more eager to kick the student out.
You're trying to sell people an Idea, this is a survey.

Getting people to pay for stuff is not the same as asking them if they would.

People don't buy Ideas, they buy Value.
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There's a very simple formula for figuring out whether self-hosting or cloud hosting makes more sense.

Add a month's worth of colocation fees, capital depreciation and associated labor costs. If it's less than your monthly cloud hosting bill, then it's time to self-host.

And if you run your own firm and haven't figured out how to calculate capital depreciation yet, it's time to learn. :)
My point was what exactly sucks about it? That it's not as pretty? Even the article says "It’s not like visible pixels in any way diminish the functional experience... Text is still readable at that size, and the touchscreen isn’t any more difficult to use." So basically we're saying that if something's not as pretty as its predecessors that it sucks. That's what seems slightly wrong to me, in my humble opinion.
Are you really surprised that the author of that code would commit an off-by-one error?
I don't intend to sound harsh, but comparisons like these are absolutely useless. It's simply incorrect to make blanket statements on the pros and cons for each service without some context. The benefits and drawbacks are going to change depending on the characteristics, purpose, and needs of the application. This post makes a "one-size-fits-most" generalization, which makes it almost entirely useless.

What kind of application are we trying to deploy? What is your budget? What is the traffic level? Is performance a top priority? How many sysadmins do you have at your disposal, and how many are you willing to add? What kind of sensitive data are we storing/transmitting?

The answers to these questions drive the selection process, and end up altering the importance of each pro and con the author mentioned. Depending on your application, some pros and cons are eliminated, and new ones added.

Please please PLEASE, for the love of all things good, don't use an article like this as the sole basis for selecting providers. Think about what you need, ask questions, and craft your search to your purpose. Don't go pick method X because other people say it's great (for their purpose).
Even better than gists is to use actual running code for examples.

http://gist-it.appspot.com/ allows you to do that, which we utilize in this tutorial: http://cookbook.hobocentral.net/tutorials/caching

Even more radical is using git for a step-by-step tutorial: http://cookbook.hobocentral.net/tutorials/agility is completely assembled from the commits of this repository: https://github.com/Hobo/agility-gitorial/commits/master
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This is a pretty thin 'comparison' with dedicated servers being given only a cursory mention and no analysis and VPS not covered at all.
I'm (still) hoping that next-gen laptops and tablets won't need any fans (or "almost silent" coolers). My tablet is already completely fanless and quiet, and so is my Dell Mini 9 ...
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that's not true. Not every product requires the same amount of "minimal".

You can quite easily get the signal from users of your MVP that they are not interested - when actually it's just that you have a crappy MVP.

Besides that, your original comment was not about building an MVP, it was referring to a full product. That's what I was referring to with "months" and "thousands"
This is a really common oversight. The thing that posts like this fail to address is whether, in their theoretical application's case, downtime is a ballbreaker, or a minor annoyance.

There is no one-size-fits-all or simple, formulaic solution to choosing cloud vs. bare metal. It's hugely dependent upon the organization and the application.
In the operating room, where some would argue where procedural checklists like this might most count, they use a pre-op timeout procedure. Usually this is to ensure the right patient is being operated on, in the right place(s), and that the right operation is being performed. The same happens before the patient is "closed". A count is taken of every bit of material / tooling used in the procedure to make sure nothing is "left behind" (in the patient). Sources: 1.) http://www3.aaos.org/member/safety/guidelines.cfm for more information. 2.) My wife who was a surgery resident.
There is a free team account for educators they just have to apply for it.
This is a series of radical assertions each presented without evidence.

Anyone who spends serious time on Wikipedia could tell you immediately what the site would be like if it required "hundreds" of people to delete a page: completely overrun with spam and vanity pages --- not about BBS door games or individual BBS's or open source authors or even bloggers, but about individual local little league teams, bands that have never played gigs or released tracks, marketing professionals, individual episodes of fake TV shows, attempts at defaming individual high school girls, 6th place finishers in city council elections, political parties with one member, "microbrew" beer pages for each of some guy's homebrew projects, made up cities in made up countries as part of some guy's counterfactual world history, repeat all previous entries in this list for each of Japan, England, Belgium, and South Africa, amateur open-mic-night standup comedians, individual bootlegged videos of concerts, "one of the 100 most influential Chinese-Canadians in British Columbia", individual unpublished short stories, as-yet-unreleased new energy drinks from as-yet-unstarted startups, 9000 pages about individual aspects of the Ron Paul campaign, film festivals from towns in Nebraska with fewer than 5000 people, repeat all previous entries in this list 10 times over the course of a year with slightly permuted names, fake professors at real universities, real professors occupying fake posts at fake universities, 46 different theories of cold fusion, fake cancer cure, fake cancer cure, fake cancer cure, fake cancer cure, fake cancer cure, world championship players from nonexistant Starcraft leagues, aspirational pages about made-up video games, individual authors of self-published ebooks, and of course, 1-5 pages about every single company incorporated in every US state.

In other words: exactly what you'd expect from an "encyclopedia that anyone in the world can edit". The site would be every naysayer's 1999 prediction for what Wikipedia would become.
Good comparison between the 4. Rackspace has come a long way since we evaluated them a few years ago (they wanted like 24 hours to bring up a new instance/server for us back then, so we ended up going with AWS).

Generally speaking our biggest challenges with AWS have been storage (making TBs of web content securely available to various autoscaling clusters) and network i/o (especially across VPC/public internet boundaries).

We've actually found that AWS' pricing beats the costs of hosting internally, especially once you look beyond raw server cost and factor in power/cooling/manual labor/datacenter space/etc. And there are lots of different options for monitoring your usage to avoid surprises (we're looking into programmatic usage reports and New Relic for that, though we've been there a couple years now so we have a good idea what our bills are going to run each month).

As far as CDN, we get way better pricing from Level3 and Akamai than we could from CloudFront or Rackspace, but our traffic patterns are more 95th-percentile-friendly than most.
Number 3 is easily bypassed, I saw it down by Tom Cruise once in a movie where he simply abseiled into the room. True story.
Being persuaded is one thing. Forced to pay extra taxes based on something like Global warming is another.
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Not at all. This offers a completely different solution than java. With java, you write once and run on everything. This lets you write C# on OS X, but it won't compile and run on Windows or Linux. Windows software can't be as easily ported to OS X either, the entire GUI, at the least, will have to be rewritten.

I would argue that Python would make more sense as a java-killer. It has the write once, run everywhere thing down much better (though still not good enough) than this.

Java is not going anywhere, sadly, and the linked product does not offer a compelling reason to believe that it will kill anything. All I see happening is that people who use mono now will potentially switch to this; honestly this isn't really ground breaking.
Both are fine.

Just don't use linebreaks or weird utf8 characters, please.

EDIT: As delimeters. Feel free to use them inside the strings.
Can somebody please edit the title to exclude (fictional) -- with that it is no longer interesting
Oh, this whole song and dance thing again.

I have no idea where on Wikipedia this is a problem. Since this is Hacker News, I humbly request than you expand your stomping grounds to include articles on algorithms. Coverage and quality is woefully inadequate, and I've yet to see the tracks of a deletion brigade running through any of them.

Also, I've found learning then explaining algorithms is a wonderful way to retain them long-term. Benefits all around.
Great point about the time factor. To be clear I'm not really recommending this to a startup - in a startup your time is probably too valuable for this. For myself the work is just as enjoyable as programming so it makes sense for my side-projects. I'm on-the-fence if I would actually use it in production. But its been pretty hands-free since I initially set it up. Its a pretty small sample size for time, so far it hasn't happened but I could easily have an issue that blows out a whole weekend.
> I'll let you know in about 10 years or so whether it made a difference. :)

To do that you need twins to treat differently. Every experiment needs a control group ;)
"In the past ethics 101 was taught by parents, somewhere along the way they became incapable of raising kids properly."

Appeals to false nostalgia are not evidence for your claims.
You can always still use CloudFront from Rackspace. It isn't bound to Amazon EC2 VMs in any way. You get much better transfer speeds when you're interacting from within EC2, but even outside it's not too bad.