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Yes! I was hoping first for awareness (step one of the process to rehabilitation) and to catalyze some change. You're right in that perhaps doucheshaming is not the best. However, some don't realize they're doing these things-- they just started out, eager to try something, and sometimes they learn and change from it. I'm pretty optimistic that people will recognize something wrong and try to fix it.
I'm not sure what else I can do-- I've tried individually talking to them, learning their perspective and hopefully picking up on mine as well, but the scale is fairly limited.
I don't support rudeness for its own sake, but there are some circumstances that call for impoliteness and abrasive questioning.
An interesting implementation of the 'learn X in Y years/hours' concept is here: http://thedanplan.com.

"It’s a project in transformation. An experiment in potential and possibilities. Through 10,000 hours of “deliberate practice,” Dan, who currently has minimal golf experience, plans on becoming a professional golfer. But the plan isn’t really about golf: through this process, Dan hopes to prove to himself and others that it’s never too late to start a new pursuit in life."

After 3 years/4000 hours, he's at a 5 handicap after starting from nothing.
It actually disgusts you? I think you might want to spend your emotions more cautiously.

I don't quite understand the argument you're really making (a less polite way is to say that you sound unreasonably entitled). "Asus, Dell, and similar" aren't making SSDs. They're buying them. And yes, it is and remains a premium feature.
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Well, Arch is not that good for a server because of this reason. I love it as a developer for a desktop system, but for server I'd definitely use Debian.
Looks cool. It'd be great if you hide the firepad instance from the global scope, to make it harder for trolls to do:

setInterval(function () {firepad.codeMirror_.setValue('foo'); }, 0);
Yeah. I was paying $29.99 for a 768MB VPS, with backups which made it about $40. For half of that I got a 2GB VPS with SSD and free daily backups. total no brainer.

Why do you say Linode's backups are more confidence inspiring though?
This is awesome I particularly like the updating line graph,
http://www.polychartjs.com/demo?dow_jones_animated
great work!
really? again?
The Persona branding is necessary because you aren't creating an account with the underlying website--you're creating an account with the persona.org fallback identity provider (that is, unless you're using a yahoo.com email or another Persona identity provider).

Think about it this way: suppose you create a persona.org account at site X, then visit site Y which also uses Persona for login. It would look like site Y recognized you, but how? Seems like an incoherent user experience.

Does this help at all?

Firebase offers a login service which includes Persona alongside Facebook, Github, Twitter as login options. They've got a demo here: http://firebase.github.io/firebase-simple-login/
This is correct, but the whole thing is marketed as email address, so it will be used as an email address, i.e. means of contacting me.

Now, consider I want to try some service I don't trust. I sign in with a email-looking identifier (which doesn't work as email address) and use the site for some time. Eventually, I become fond of this service and want it to start contacting me. With 123done.org I can't do this, nor at the mineshafter.info, nor at crossword.thetimes.co.uk. Trovebox looks broken to me, so can't tell it works, and I was lucky with voo.st, as it allowed me to add more accounts. Don't know more sites using Persona. Considering, today when you register with only Facebook or Google account relatively many sites don't let you change that binding in the future, it's very likely the situation with Persona will be the same.
Completely different to AppGratis. Facebook allows you to target (based on gender, location, likes, workplace) and advertise your app. Users have no incentive to DL your app and actually have a need for your product.

I've had a lot of success on FB mobile install ads.
FlightTrack Pro (http://www.mobiata.com/apps/flighttrackpro-iphone) has always worked exceptionally well in realtime for me...
I live in the South Bay. I do not have a cell phone. I'm a full stack engineer at a startup that's raised series A--not some grumpy "Get off of my lawn!" grandpa.

What urgency is there to need a cellphone for, in most routine days? Sure, it would suck if something horrible happened to a member of my family and I couldn't be contacted until I got home, oh maybe 4 hours later. Short of some such edge case scenarios, "it can wait".
But 4x less CPU. And support is a joke.
I've used it to try out paid apps that don't have a free option. I'd see a great deal of benefit for a small app being featured. They'd essentially go from their current user base to potentially millions in a day.
It's important to distinguish between stimulus spending (which consists of typically one-off measures to fight recessions) and the regular payouts that the government makes every year.

All deficit spending last year consisted of the latter. In bad times, the these payouts naturally/automatically increase. For example, let's take the SNAP (food stamp program) - when the recession hit, more people lost their jobs and had to apply for food stamps. So even if the government didn't change the requirements for applying for SNAP, the SNAP program had to spend more. The narrative that Obama chose to spend more on food stamps because he has an affinity for spending is misleading. If anything, he (and Congress) chose not to cut the SNAP program.

Of course, SNAP is a bad example to begin with, because it doesn't make up that much of the federal budget. Medicare, on the other hand, does, and its costs are rising because health care costs in general are rising. Medicare's costs to the government are rising no faster than private health insurance companies' costs to individuals.
One data point is a poor basis for decision making.
Yeah. And while we're at it, get them to buy you lunch.

I met a guy who I've now nicknamed as "Ideas and Problems guy" when I talk about him. (It's a little more polite-- so I'm not bad mouthing his name, since our community is not that big.) I think that just by talking to him I provided value to him--- I was a cynical sounding board for his ideas. I never wrote a line of code for him, but being a sounding board probably helped him. Oh well, TANSTAAFL reigns.
Right so, do we get to shrug off people with less than 10 years experience? Sure would end a lot of arguments.
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awesome upgrade..
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You can access a recovery image on linode I'm guessing there is no such thing available for Digital Ocean is why he was asking for help in recovering files (even prgmr offers a recover images that you can use to recover files).

The fact that he didn't get any help is a problem that is what support is supposed to do and if he expects a higher level of support than Digital Ocean provides and Linode provides that I see no problem.
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We are activists and academics who support reform of the CFAA. (Reddit AMA)
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"We're smarter than them. We ought to be able to extract some use from them."

Who are the pretentious ones again?
Sometimes people are bad at listening when they believe the speaker has a great point. That's what excites the listener to race ahead to responses. I think it's easier said than done to be patient in those situations.
Hey, so any email address will work. If it's not a Persona identity provider, then you'll just get prompted to create an account with the persona.org fallback IdP. You can see this right now by trying to login using a gmail account vs a yahoo mail account.

Does this help?
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Depends on the characteristics of the webapp, and how much I/O it needs per request.

On the other hand multiple CPUs only matter if you have a ton of traffic. My side projects do not :) At least for hobbyists Digital Ocean is very compelling.
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No. You're completely wrong and I'm starting to conclude that you're taking what's right, inverting it, and writing it as a comment.

The consumer confidence index is a measure of savings and spending. The more confident consumers are, the more people are spending and the less they're saving, and vice versa. This isn't an American thing.

What people have been taught and what people actually do are two different things.
But it's only $2.99.
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Aha, that was it. I was assuming you'd bound the length. :-)
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Our coding guidelines at Stripe specify that whitespace is to be stripped. It works if everyone does it.

On the occasion where whitespace does pollute the diff, GitHub has a convenient feature where you can append '?w=1' to any diff URL and whitespace changes will be omitted.
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It's probably mainly targeted towards servers but there's a healthy market for it among consumers. After all, there are a lot of people out there with specific needs or wants that call for storage - it may be a 'niche' product at the moment, but even now the niche is pretty big (even 1% of a ton of people is a ton of people).

My personal (developer machine) calls for around 400gb for VMs and databases. Useful install media (which, sure, is largely optional) adds another ~30gb. If I want a few games on the machine, that's an extra ~20gb. Already, that's around 450gb of space used, and that's being pretty space conscious.

Huge drives like this provide convenience. If I want to back things up locally (full VM snapshots, database backups), there's enough space to do that without having to worry / shuffle things off to a NAS (which may or may not be an option if it's a laptop and you're on the road), and HDDs don't cut it performance-wise.
Entitled? I want to give them money and get a product in return. But the market isn't supplying the product I want.

I can buy it through other supply channels but this small handful of companies are intentionally sitting in innovative new technology so they can sell you it at a massive markup in a limited range of their "premium" products.

For example, just look at the Chromebook. Clearly it is possible to supply at a reasonable price, but yet a MORE expensive, Dell, Asus, or similar wont.
What power and time are we talking about? Could one high draw cell or AAA battery do it?
I don't think Apple will approve an app that blocks a user or slows them down unless they install a 3rd party app. What usually happens is an advert pops up during normal app usage, the user has to exit or let the ad go away, then they can continue using. It's a normal advertisement. Its not unlike when the NYTimes does a full site takeover for some Buick commercial and you have to minimize the ad before you can continue reading. But going out and buying a Buick certainly doesn't decrease your access time to NYTimes articles.
I think the Cliff Click tech talk you are looking for was at Stanford in 2007. He covered both his wait free hash table and scaling on modern systems, specifically Azul Systems in 2007.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYXgtXWejRM
No, Ocean provides backups, though they're currently 'in beta'.
> It's nonsense.

Not nonsense, but somewhat arbitrary. Given the present topic, maybe a power of two would be more apt, although equally arbitrary. 8,192 hours (2^13) is the power of two closest to 10^4, based on:

2^⌊log(10^4)/log(2)⌋ = 8192

(⌊x⌋ = floor(x))

It's just an anecdote. It has some connection to reality, but it's not like the fine-structure constant or the gravitational constant.
Which is a violation of the OS X EULA.

install, use and run up to two (2) additional copies or instances of the Apple Software within virtual operating system environments on each Mac Computer you own or control that is already running the Apple Software, for purposes of: (a) software development; (b) testing during software development; (c) using OS X Server; or (d) personal, non-commercial use.

http://www.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/OSX1082.pdf

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Exactly why a lot of devs are finding a freemium model with in-app purchases to be a winning strategy.
I haven't looked at Asus or Dell, but I've been shopping around for a laptop lately, and almost every one I've looked at has had the option to have SSD or a regular hard drive. Few ship with them by default, but from what I've seen it's a really common option.
Tell that to the merchant who needs to make payroll this month, not in the long run.
The code editor is really slick. Did you build it from scratch or is it a library?
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polychart.js makes it really easy to create charts that interacts with one another
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From the above comments it looks like they could be charging 100k per day to be featured.
Hah, yeah.

That quote or attitude came from a mentor I had at an internship. He noticed that I was annoyed at people who I thought were stupider than me-- so he told me that:

"If you think you're the smarter one, then the onus is on you to have a smooth business relationship with them. You're the more capable one, so it's within your power to do business with these clients despite their shortcomings."

The great thing about this attitude is that it works even if you aren't smarter than them. If anything, this quote can encourage pretentiousness to turn on itself.
For two reasons: First they created a "supported" image that had no IgnorePkg = linux as it should since they don't support upgrading the kernel. They did this on their Ubuntu image. They failed to it with the Arch image. Second, you have no access to the kernel that is used to boot the system. Even after upgrading system kept booting the old kernel but network was still down. Nothing a user can do at this point.
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Now AT&T is announcing that they are building a 1Gbps fiber service in Austin as well.

http://www.engadget.com/2013/04/09/att-1gbps-fiber-internet-...
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Freaking Freemont.

I can't wait to hear their "upcoming explanation", and I hope it's along the lines of "we're nuking it from orbit".
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Won't people realize that doing that would detract from the experience of other users?

Haha, just kidding! Moved everything into a closure. Thanks for suggesting it.
That's coming from ARIN, not Linode. ARIN won't hand out more IP addresses unless ISPs can show they are being effectively utilized. I've had to fill out a form at Rackspace to justify additional IPs.
Since we don't have customer facing analytics for it at the moment, we're not charging :)
I'm definitely a minority, but plan on building a durable array (for on and off-road travel). Until now, a redundant terabyte was pretty hard to swallow.

Now I'm just looking for a nice 2.5" enclosure with a built-in RAID controller and eSATA or USB 3.0.
"All you have to do is deposit one penny in a savings account in your own era, and when you arrive at the End of Time the operation of compound interest means that the fabulous cost of your meal has been paid for." - Douglas Adams
Tbh, I actually moved for the RAM and not the SSD, but again if you're running stuff like Sphinx or Elasticsearch (search engines which have their entire index stored on disk and then read into memory as needed), then having an SSD helps.

Also in the case where you're running with swap because you don't have enough memory, SSD comes in handy too, mysql is particularly badly behaved in this respect, it swaps too easily unless you load the entire db into memory by setting innodb_buffer_pool_size equal to the size of the db + a little bit.

long story short, an SSD can help out quite a bit more than you seem to suggest.
No. Just because you get 8 vCPU on Linode does not mean you have 4x the CPU. You share those 8 vCPU with dozens or hundreds of other servers (depending on VM size). More small slices of a pie that is the same size, is not really more.
Skipping over OP in favor of Olathe was indeed politically, as well as practically, motivated. The fiber is being hung on existing poles, but Overland Park relies heavily on buried lines to quite a few areas. Additionally, Olathe's city council was very willing to accommodate Google--Overland Park moves more slowly and is likely less accommodating.
Hrm. I don't know about a couple years ago, but I recently moved my server from Fremont to Dallas because I was having weird network issues from my California friends. (I host a small Mumble server.) Moving to Dallas fixed everything completely.
This is fantastic. Looked up some more information about your Firebase offerings and like what's going on there, too :-) Keep up the great work!
Assuming you can stomach a little scheduled downtime, isn't it pretty easy to move a Linode to a different data center?
No matter what they release and no matter how well it sells, they won’t win over the press, the pundits, the stock market, or the rhetoric. Not this year. They could release a revolutionary 60-inch 4K TV for $99 with built-in nanobots to assemble and dispense free smartwatches, and people would complain that it should cost $49 and the nanobots aren’t open enough.

Speaking of rhetoric...
Isn't the second question equivalent to what we have now? If an attacker knows my Yahoo password, can he potentially reset all the passwords of sites I registered with using my Yahoo email address and login to them.
Lesson 1: Figure out why the URL isn't loading the required page.

Hint: ?
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That's interesting because cost is Linode's reason for not offering SSD. Digital Ocean actually uses very expensive enterprise SSD in the servers. I'm a current customer of Digital Ocean after being with Linode for over 2 years.
For those wondering where Google will roll out, we don't have exact details, but we have some information.

1) They said they will stick to Austin City Limits, which means within these boundaries [1].

2) For those that followed up with how KC operated, Google runs their lines on electrical poles and all places the city power company has lines. This is one of the big things KC and Austin have in common: city owned electric utility. With that google can run all their lines much easier. So, if you get electricity from Austin Energy, you will likely be eligible to get Google Fiber at some point.

3) Beyond that, it will be up to people like us to advocate in our neighborhood to get people to sign up for the service. Whatever areas have a large # of people pledge to sign up will be more likely to get it. To me this means south and east Austin. But at the same time, north austin has a lot of tech employees from Dell, Freescale, PayPal, and other large companies (though many of those people may live in Round Rock).

[1] http://www.zipmap.net/Texas/Travis_County/Austin.htm

[1.1] (easier on the eyes map) http://www.maptechnica.com/us-city-boundary-map/city/Austin/...
Well said, Mr. Wallace. A great list of essays by David Foster Wallace.
Enterprise quality seems to mean a different quality improvement each time. Is there any realistic point in average heavy desktop users sticking to SLC?
It's quite a bit more difficult to develop apps for Android, since the ecosystem is so fragmented and there are many different device types to take into account.

It makes a lot of sense to develop an iOS app and push it out as soon as possible so that you can start getting feedback from real users. Version 2.0 can include an Android version.
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Makes you think about the differences around the world. Heck, I was amazed when I found an arrowhead as a child, I couldn't image a grenade. /unproductiveDiscussion
First, no. HDD recovery is expensive but possible in many cases.

Secondly, no one say it should be counted as a weakness, the guy above was just pointing out that it's probably not a strength, as someone above claimed.
oh dear, I started ranting and could not stop - sorry

1. The meeting does have a natural end - when you have finished coffee. Today my accountant gulped half his down in seconds. I took it as a sign.

2. the wifi issue - In the UK Costa is taking on Starbucks but... I have to ask at the till for a unique 30 minute token that I cannot read and has more entropy than a mathematicians kettle. Really guys, I spend a f&!%ing fortune at your place, please just let me google for the three minutes I am standing in line.

3. You cannot do more than say 2 coffee meetings in a day.

4. Food. Look, by 11.30 I am a bit snackish. A biscotti ain't gonna cut it. So that means the poor bugger opposite me needs to watch me feeding my fat face and explaining how Persona will change Identity on line with mozzarella and spinach hanging out between my coffee stained teeth.
Not sure where to go with that, just feeling a little self conscious.

5. Going back in. Now that we have finished the coffee, and
meandered to the door, how to handle the "well, actually I am going to go and buy a sandwich I was too embarrassed to buy when sitting with you". It just looks weird,

6. stop calling it a loyalty card!!!!

7. I like the baristas. I chat meaninglessly to them. Except when the owner pops in. Suddenly they correctly ask if I want a pastry with that? Do I have a loyalty card. Stop it !

8. Your laptop did not pay for a coffee. Your laptop does not get a table space all to itself. Thats why there are chairs in front of the table - for people to sit at.
Hi, I'm one of the developer of Meon https://itunes.apple.com/en/app/meon/id400274934?mt=8 . We have been promoted twice by App Gratis, each time we've never paid anything. The App Gratis campaign generated more than 400K downloads and push us in the first place in the French App Store (for a few days). Of course App Gratis use iTunes affiliation to get revenues, but they didn't charge us for anything.
I like the interaction layer (at least the way it's described). The per-developer pricing for this is really strange though. If I implement this in an app, it may start out as my app, and then other developers may collaborate later on, sometimes temporarily. How much would this cost? I have no idea, so I'd probably skip it entirely for any project.
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Yes. It would be interesting to read about their experiences as I presume most large SSD deployments would be for databases only.
We used Ace for the editing, and then basically just listen for changes and update the document. There is more we could do there to really integrate it, but it's a nice start.
We've got a lot more to offer than "use the source Luke" ;-)

There are tons of technical docs on our MDN page: https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Persona

You can start with a high-level explanation of why Persona is different and awesome: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Persona/Why_Persona

From there, you can dig as deep as you'd like--we have docs to help with building an identity provider, integrating Persona into an existing site, even a list of pre-written open source plugins in a ton of languages/frameworks.

If none of that works, drop by #identity on mozilla IRC and tell us our docs suck, so we can prioritize making them better.