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The problem with saying things like "Support packages are available", is that time and again we see paying Google customers with support packages being treated awfully.

For example, this guy was a paying Google customer but couldn't get help http://www.sultansolutions.com/google-voice-lost-number/

These are paying customers who are paying a non-trivial amount of money for support (though not the "Premium" support in this case, which is an extra $500 per month for GAE).
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Autoplay is bad for all users
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TIOBE's methodology is pretty controversial[0], I wouldn't read anything into changes as small as this.

[0] http://blog.timbunce.org/2009/05/17/tiobe-index-is-being-gam...
We haven't had any issues with memory leaks since we've been using Unicorn and Rails 3. Back in the old days of Mongrel and Rails 2 we had to restart the processes periodically because of this, but we haven't seen any issues with this setup. Here are the stats:

www-data 21714 0.0 5.6 102928 87164 ? Sl Feb26 0:30 unicorn_rails master -c production.conf.rb -E production -D
www-data 21762 0.2 8.5 150672 131996 ? Sl Feb26 1:58 unicorn_rails worker[0] -c production.conf.rb -E production -D
www-data 21768 0.2 8.5 152036 132352 ? Sl Feb26 1:58 unicorn_rails worker[1] -c production.conf.rb -E production -D
www-data 21774 0.2 8.1 145248 125668 ? Sl Feb26 1:56 unicorn_rails worker[2] -c production.conf.rb -E production -D
www-data 21780 0.2 8.3 148792 129736 ? Sl Feb26 2:01 unicorn_rails worker[3] -c production.conf.rb -E production -D
www-data 21786 0.1 8.3 148384 129260 ? Sl Feb26 1:48 unicorn_rails worker[4] -c production.conf.rb -E production -D
www-data 21792 0.1 8.6 152156 133880 ? Sl Feb26 1:52 unicorn_rails worker[5] -c production.conf.rb -E production -D
Google support is an absolute disgrace.

I had a Nexus 7 go AWOL at Christmas and I've never had such a shambolic customer service experience.

They have absolutely no respect or customer service ethos when it comes to people who are actually paying them real cash money.

Not in a million years would I sign off on hosting a production project on App Engine.
I couldn't agree more. In fact, it was deprecated just about eleven months ago: http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2012/04/masterslave-data...

When your datastore gets deprecated, you act sooner rather than later.
Autoplay is still bad for all users
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I am also a GAE-user, I have had no problems like the OP. But I start to miss a fundamental feature, sockets. I have worked around it by using other services and polling.

Maybe wrong forum, but is there any infrastructure templates for setting up a scalable web/db/loadbalancer/memcached for a simple tradional webservice, in my case a game?

I want to be able to sleep at night, and easily scale up by adding some more machines in case of higher load.

I could use denormalized myslq/postgre or mongodb for speed. Preferred language is Python (or maybe c# or java).

Any ideas?
I had to read the article twice to make sure the author was being sarky. That's taking sarcasm to the next level (or was he being serious? I still can't tell for sure).
The "Smalltalk Environment" is almost completely written in Smalltalk, you know. So long as you can replicate the behavior of the Change Log. Saving and restoring images, and morphing instances when you change classes, it should be portable. Also, there's the broken class side inheritance on the JVM to deal with.
I have emailed them.
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My 2 cents in response: I use C#, JavaScript and Python daily. I spent 6 months learning Ruby but decided it wasn't for me. I also use Objective C for iOS and enjoy optimising SQL in my database layer.

However the three platforms I use in order are .Net MVC, Django and node.js. Before I chose Django I wrote my own Python-based web framework but decided I'd rather build applications than frameworks. Django has a massive community built around it that I couldn't find anywhere else (note - I _have_ been using Django since 2007).

The main reason I use Django? because I, personally, know what I'm doing, where everything lives and can get it done quickly. It works for me and it clearly works for other people, so you can't knock it.

What I _wouldn't_ do, is advertise for a 'Django' developer. You have to know Python and understand what your framework is doing under the hood.

Django is great, I'm sure Pyramid is great as long as you understand what it's doing and have read the code, but most importantly, what we all are is Python programmers.
Looking at the source, it looks like this lib uses boost:asio on non windows platforms.
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This customer is complaining about a service component which has been deprecated since almost 11 months ago. There is a tool which migrates application data from the old datastore to the new one. When you don't move off of deprecated infrastructure, I'd say you've set yourself up for problems.
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Is there a good explanations of why Rainbows is better than Unicorn for slow clients? All I seem to have read is that it is better, but without going into details what is different.

We use Nginx in front of Unicorn as suggested, however we also do synchronous file uploads and thumbnailing, the process takes a while (maybe 20 seconds) and I would like to understand whether we should be using Rainbows for this.
I wonder how class modification is implemented. It claims even "final" variables can be modified.
> So, in theory, if I feed back in the compressed video they give me - Beamr should refuse to optimize it further because it should be as perfectly compressed as possible.

Nuh-uh, he claimed Beamr will reduce the bitrate of any video: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5290308

You're giving them way too much benefit of the doubt, yes what you descibe above is what a sane video optimization algorithm along these lines would do, but that's specifically what we are all guessing (that would make sense) and not at all what Beamr has been claiming.

What about an arithmetic encoder on raw video that refuses to compress when it can't reduce file size (including headers) with the message "cannot optimize further without loss of quality". While I can't market it for 100x improved compression vs Blu-Ray, at least it does exactly what it says on the box!
"My career is likely older than you"

Your career spans over 30 years? If so, I applaud you and of course withhold my rights to criticize your choices without knowing more details.
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In a few years you'll probably get to the point where you don't prefer less invasive solutions but will pick the right tool for the job.

If you know you'll be iterating rapidly but will stay within the confines of 'standard CRUDdy app' then e.g. Django, RoR, Spring Roo e.a. will be probably be good to you. If you expect to go beyond those confines you'll be burnt.

In general it's about finding what I like to call the 'grain of the tool' and pick the ones where you can go with the grain.
Did not like them. Opened up free checking with them. A year later, they started high fees for small balances per month. Nickel and dimed me for every little thing too.

Went to HSBC. Had problems with them (clerical BS). Don't really like them, but they have free checking when their computers don't screw me.
May I ask a serious question - are you reluctant to put something in this thread in CSS it is used against you in evidence?

It's not trolling just something I have noticed growing on HN

Oh and where do you live ple
Nobody assumes that children inherently dislike maths. They can't dislike something they don't even know.

The point is that children start to dislike maths once they go to school. And they do - all kids in my class either already knew basic maths before going to school or were completely bored by it.

The same will happen with programming once it will be "taught" in schools as well.

Think of it this way - if you want people equally competent as you to teach your child in school, you have to pay them 1/n of your salary, where n is the number of students in class. If you pay them less, they will find a better paid job elsewhere like you did. And you don't want n to be large since it's hard to pay attention to more that a dozen of kids at a time.

Hence, school must either consume 5% to 10% of your salary per child, or be ran by people less competent than you. It seems that usually the latter is the case.
Again, things are not as clear as you try to paint them.

I might say the same thing to you. Your miserable person in a hospital might actually count towards GDP, for instance. I'm sure you're familiar with the broken window fallacy, and to me, it still seems to run wild.

Regarding your last paragraph, I think we are getting to the crux of the problem. What is the purpose of optimizing for GDP if it can't encompass what's important? It might not even be correlated. So I propose we change the incentives and optimize for something else than "growth", as it were.
>Well, the bug report doesn't really invite quick attention. Simply reporting your observations is not enough: you should position yourself as a competent customer

If it was one person experiencing the problem, you would be right. But it's a number of people.
We'll have to deal with that when Israel gets a fascist government, I suppose.
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> Smalltalk is like Objective C without the C part.

Yeah… no. Smalltalk is much more than the Objective part of Objective-C, beyond even the development environment.
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There is a customer complaining that it is happening on the non-deprecated solution, as well.
Python 3's improved handling of UTF-8 is by itself worth the upgrade. I've spent more time than I care to recall trying to get Python 2.x to handle Unicode correctly.

I only mention this because it's a visible change that's easy to explain in a few words. The more basic changes are mostly subtle and difficult to describe without direct experience.

> but I don't see anything new than, when programming in Python 2x, makes me think "oh, if only I had used Python 3 here!".

That's not a very sound basis for comparative evaluation. If you have only ever owned a horse, the advantages of owning a car might not be obvious. The horse can go places the car cannot, so the fact that the car gets to other places faster might be overlooked.
Its great to see this. Pascal was the language they taught us in highschool. Everyone in the class was given a license to Borland Turbo Pascal v5. While I haven't really used it since, Pascal will always hold a special place in my heart. I wrote my first game in it, and spent many long nights trying to figure out how to accept mouse interrupts, how to use pointers to efficiently redraw graphics, and lots of other fundamental things I now take for granted.
"Dictator-style company that seemingly caters to grandma more than technical folk" "Obnoxious smug ethos"

teehee
Because of this I moved away from GAE over a year ago. And not me alone, when GAE was still hot, 2-3 years ago, you could read tons of blog articles with unsatisfied customers.

So it doesn't surprise me to read about weird performance degradations. Since years GAE suffers from such problems.

Maybe they don't care about small customers and love to hear about them move to Heroku or to good old Virtual Servers. It would be polite to tell upfront though.
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Ask PG: Would you have funded Instagram if they had applied for YC?
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Obviously all theories cannot work in all contexts, applying free market principles to the prison system leads to more people in jail.. All economic policies are about optimizing incentives, and the government steps in when the general good is at odds with the obvious incentive.. That does not make everything socialism..
Migrating is an effort but it is always possible. In fact, when you migrate you realize how independent you are. Even if you use tons of APIs, everybody has 'em even if their interfaces are different.
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I've been rarely in a position where I could say with confidence that today's boundaries would be tomorrow's boundaries.
... and a bunch of students that study in Singapore's SMU were fooled too[1]. It's not hard to find information and people's outrage about this crappy guy. I heard of him via one of my students who studied in SMU and have been waiting for the day someone unmasks him.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ankit_Fadia#Career
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We're a paying customer of GAE. I think it's quite clear that paying for the basic service doesn't include support beyond the public issue tracker and the forums. Support packages start at $150 per month, and at that point you get a 4 hour response time. I think that's entirely reasonable. We have yet to sign up for a support level, but then again we're not really seeing any troubles with the service.
I think the key advantage here is that it's not different folks each time. We allocate the same pool of people to collaborate on your work whenever possible, so you can train them and develop a trusted relationship.

Our thinking is that this gives you many of the same advantages of a VA, while having a staff to draw from and higher availability.
It will most likely reduce the quality of the video

I think someone did this experiment, of reencoding a jpg multiple times to see what happens, and of course, after some iterations you only get a blob

Because it's lossy compression, you can only do this once or twice without noticeable loss

Now, of course, they're probably assuming you took the video, compressed it one time and then submitted it to them
I had several small things (laziness, poor libraries [in 2009], failing to get anyone else in the organisation even the slightest bit interested, my own lacking skills) but the overall worst problem was the feeling of the disconnect between the language and the host running my program. That is of course more or less always an issue when one uses a higher level language, but I felt Haskell was so far off that it disturbed me.

Also, the negative effect one gets after going back to one's own code after several months seemed much much worse in Haskell. Haskell code is too thick, too concise, not unlike mathematics. I find it ironic that the community, apparently, values that.

I bet others have had better experiences, but I definitely did not. Hanging around with Haskell clearly taught me many good things about program design, but I don't foresee myself wanting to ever write anything on the platform ever again.
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This date format is great for sorting. No need to chop up strings or break into components.
How is this on HN front page? This is an old chain email that is most likely made up (notice the lack of any specific names).

Edit: Someone in the comments links to snopes

http://www.snopes.com/college/exam/socialism.asp
What he should have failed them for is thinking Obama is a socialist.
This is clearly as fake a story as stories get.
Well, there's a good reason not to use this service.
Sure, hence the "but seriously..."

Also, I'm sure Objective C is the language still in mainstream use that most resembles Smalltalk (at least the non-C OO parts).
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Many on the thread say the reporters are over-reacting. They are not. What would amazon do? They would not consider this an issue, would respond in less than 24 hours, and would take complete responsibility. GAE is a pay service. I think this level of service is pathetic.

As noted the only attempt at diagnosis is completely wrong (even the reporter is not on MS) and very late.
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This is exactly what is happening over at Norway. The government takes all our wages and distributes the money equally across the population. /s

I hate it when people present everything as a black and white situation. Apparently either we live in complete and utter free market anarchy with no oversight or accountability, or everybody gets the same wage no matter how hard they work.

Where do I fit in, if I want the market to be mostly free and private, but I don't mind some regulations to make sure there isn't cyanide in my cereal?
That's obviously a fictional story. Since it depends on a single (fictional) anecdote to make its case there is very little to even discuss, unless you're going to either believe or disbelieve this "story" based on nothing.

Ultimately I'd prefer to look at statistics and other facts to make policy decisions. Many countries have different levels of socialist policies so there is plenty of data to draw from.
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> No, I'm not sure why you're so dedicated to promoting Django's negative qualities as if they're virtues. The rigidity is not preferable, in any circumstance. It's simply less adaptive, and therefore less useful, architecture.

This reminds me of when ROR came out and "opinionated frameworks" were the new black. I can kind of see where parent is coming from - lightweight frameworks are lightweight because they rely on external components (eg, ORM, form-handling libraries...) which are so many moving parts, and not always well integrated with the framework. On the other hand, I've found that the Flask plugin ecosystem works pretty well as very lightweight glue with other components.

And let's face it: even with a "batteries included" framework, you'll eventually have to go out and get a third-party battery which was not included.
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There have been some discussions about him here before:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4316574
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4536439
He just replied: https://twitter.com/ankit_fadia/status/306659820910542848

Hilarious!!

He seems to be converting this whole episode to his advantage and using it as a marketing opportunity.
Never pay Google. It has terrible support for all products
Django rigidity with the ORM and template language brings one major advantage: Reusable applications developed for Django are pretty much guaranted to use them. So you can aggregate them without having to deal with 3 different ORM or template languages.

Yes, django reusable apps are not always top notch quality and always maintained properly. And sometimes you will need to dicth all the templates and create your own. But you sometimes get an important piece of software for free or at least a good base to start your work.

I feel that with a more "flexible" framework the integration of apps coded by different teams will be more problematic.
I would definitely be interested in reading your response.
http://www.google.com/intl/en/enterprise/apps/business/prici...

Either you click "Start Free Trial" or "Contact Sales". The one is automatic registration, the other involves human interaction.

I guess Google Apps illustrates this the best. IMHO it's somehow the glue that keeps your stuff together when you use Google as hoster.
Until your highly subjective question gets closed:

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/188455/why-do...
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I guess the question is, if you're paying and you find what you believe is a system wide issue, do you expect a resolution?

In this case, Google's response is seemingly "It might (or might not) be a system-wide issue, but we don't care - we won't fix it".

There's no indication in this case that someone paying $500 a month for the premium support would get a better answer.
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There is no way they would reuse JVM classes in a faithful Smalltalk port; it would probably be more like JRuby where the object system is implemented a layer above the JVM and some interop is provided to the Java class system.
If the experiment was real it proved only that the majority of students of the class were not personally interested in the subject and studied only for grades. Such students should think about finding something they actually like to learn even if there is no grading system or grading system is broken.
Not really.

You can host your own applications using AppScale or Typhoonae.

Moving applications is easy. Moving data is much worse.
I agree that is controversial the method of tiobe measuring

Another option is to consult the download page for free pascal compiler (this is one of the mirrors)

https://sourceforge.net/projects/freepascal/files/stats/time...

Also lazarus ide download stats
https://sourceforge.net/projects/lazarus/files/stats/timelin...
I live in Edinburgh, where public transport consists of a wonderful bus service (and an upcoming tram line which has been a complete fiasco from start to finish).

Catching buses I've frequently noticed that other bus-drivers would hop on and off the bus, traveling for free, presumably on the way to stops to change drivers etc.

I figured if I dressed up as a bus-driver, in their simple uniform, I could hop-on and off buses for free. I didn't intend to defraud the company, but was curious to know if it was possible.

Short version: Free bus travel for a couple of days, providing I wore the maroon blazer, smart trousers, and carried a bag.
the universal aims of this project seem a bit misguided. only a small percentage of students will have the ability to be productive programmers.
Not my experience at all. While it's true I never had much trouble with App Engine, when I had problems, they were solved rather quickly.
Reading the Google Groups responses, he's officially created a http://xkcd.com/1172/ situation heh
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GitHub wrote about this back in 2009.

https://github.com/blog/517-unicorn
Shoudda learn how to make this kind of excuse! :-))
Pop quiz, where did this quote come from: "They are all infiltrators. We must drive them all out."

If it walks like a duck ..
And incidents like these have contributed to the sad, long decline of Delphi/FP. Ever since the large exodus of talented former Borland engineers, Borland, Inprise, CG and Embarcadero management had been exploiting Delphi as a cash cow and milking it FWIW.