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Why can't people just acknowledge these things are cyclical?

You love something, then everyone loves it, then it's not as cool and special, then people start to hate it, then they tear it down and find something else to love. Microsoft has completed that cycle and is now potentially going to be loved again, whereas Apple is nearing the end of their cycle and is started to be hated.
> leave that ISP

There's your flaw. Most people have 0, 1, or 2 choices for ISP. And those ISPs offer similarly sucky service.

Compare US bandwidth rates to modern countries, and you'll see that the US businesses are not in any way competing with each other to the benefit of the consumer.
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I deleted mines by accident. How can i restore it back on my fb page?
If you want a schema database backed Web App or API then yeah, sure, both Rails & Django are clearly still the most mature and fully featured frameworks. Yes, there's plenty of other interesting things happening, and yes Django is only going to be one part of many in your stack, but it's still got a hell of a lot going for it.
I wholeheartedly agree that there's no reason for me to feel pride in an athlete's abilities just because we're from the same nation, but I think a gold medal winning athlete has plenty to be proud of.
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This is one of the reasons why Rackspace simplified pricing of Cloud Files from the start. No fees for PUT, POST, LIST, HEAD, GET, DELETE...no extra fees for Akamai CDN requests. Very simple with no hidden fees that surprise you at the end of the month.
There is an important distinction you are failing on.

"NetFlix is responsible for 30% + of evening internet traffic"

This is false. Netflix is not responsible for the traffic usage. PEOPLE WHO WATCH NETFLIX are responsible for this traffic.

I also think you are incorrect on the "all you can eat" pricing. Of course, I am not privy to the actual business deal that Netflix has with their internet provider... but I very much doubt that they have unlimited bandwidth. They, like their customers, are most likely paying for how much they use.
"Life originating only after some 15 million years after the big bang, would by any means be extremely super intelligent by now."

Who needs (super) intelligence, when one can be happy?
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I like to point out something...

The ISP providers that use fixed wireless to customers have the same upstream infrastructure and costs as Verizon..

Want to guess if they are throttling?

They are not.. for example CSINEt local to me does not

So we should be asking what part of verzion's structure is forcing them to do this..

It cannot be money alone as both entities are entitled to the same broadband federal grants
To further add: the PyPI version hasn't been updated since March 2013 but the last time the relevant lines were changed was January 2013, so you should still be good with the PyPi version (assuming changes from then went out in the last release).

The setting in question is: AWS_AUTO_CREATE_BUCKET.
Agreed, I really don't like physical technical books. If an epub was available, I would have spent the time writing this comment by filling out my credit card details in stead.
Just fyi, the idiom is "it dawned on me".
yah, mine too! there's no video.. :(
Give me a break. I guarantee that when NASA was proposed, nobody had a presentation which showed all the companies that would result, nor all the side effects of the engineering talent that would be accreted in industry and universities, nor all the innovations that would occur not just from items listed in the RFPs but from items inspired by those items and so on.

You're pretending that if something good happens after a government action it was all intentional and thus there were never any unintended positive impacts of anything, ever. Because government is full of far-sighted individuals who totally grokked that ARPAnet would eventually be used for every conceivable form of communication, entertainment, and commerce.

The world is complex. Governmental programs aren't all good or all bad. Reality isn't compatible with your small-minded ideology. Deal with it.
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It happens the other way too:

http://quickleft.com/expansion

The short version is that a product company (Sprint.ly) bought the RoR services company (QuickLeft) and yet took the service company's name. This will let the combined company build the main product more efficiently, but also build more products down the road (which would be awkward if they were called Sprint.ly).
This is rather naive. In certain circles yes but by far the majority of people use just their search.

So you are saying a vast majority of people don't use gmail, google maps, or youtube. I'd venture to guess a vast majority of people use at least one of those things on a regular basis.
it's awesome. But what is the background song ? i really want to know it.
That quote is about developing and testing on SQLite but deploying on another database such as PostgreSQL and MySQL. Unsurprisingly, doing so is likely to result in bugs that only occur in production.
Have you taken a look at ActiveCollab [0]? I have a friend who's in a similar space who swears by it... looking to get my environment to move to it as well.

[0] https://www.activecollab.com/
I think you're right about a lot of things in this post, but the one thing I disagree with is that internet traffic is going to continually follow an exponential growth curve.

The main driver behind increased internet traffic is the migration from television to internet for video content. I think that trend is going to continue over the next decade or so until everyone uses the internet for video content. But after that I think you'll see internet traffic level off to an extent.

ISPs need to build out their systems to handle that. I can't see anything else causing a dramatic rise in traffic so once they build out their system to handle video content it should be good for awhile.

Unfortunately, most ISPs are also cable companies, so naturally they are resistant to spending money just to shoot themselves in the foot. But this trend is going to continue whether they like it or not. It's probably going to be a really painful process for the ISPs and their customers. Netflix is going to be trapped in the middle. The ISPs will want to choke netflix out and take over their business. With net neutrality gone they just might.It's going to take some good PR and strategy for netflix to come out of this fight alive. If I was a betting man I'd say they'll put up a good fight but eventually be bought out by one of the big ISPs.
More like multiplayer 10/10. The boringness of the people that you spend time with is directly correlated to your own.
How exactly is Dart dangerous? It's open source, unlike C#.

One nit to pick here: C# is open sourced, though the .NET framework is not. Anyway, let's focus our discussion on Dart.

Somehow I had an impression that GOOG might have a plan B that would push Dart to replace JS on the web and Java on the mobile and a walled-garden that unifies current ChromeAppStore and PlayStore. JS would be totally marginalized and obsoleted. I'm not a fan of JS, but throwing away the enormous efforts done for the past decade is too much a churn and waste for me to swallow. I could hopefully be totally wrong though.
The point is not about avoiding SQLite when it makes sense to use it, but to have the same DB in the development and production environment. SQLite is much more permissive than, say, Postgres, and these differences mean that bugs could go unnoticed until deployment.
fair enough. if you Google does Google get you the right one - obviously.

so it still works though. I wonder if they have a general trademark claim against thirtysomething-signals :)
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Sorry you've neglected to explain why a tax on profits is going to reduce supply.

You have totally ignored my point that changes in profit do not necessarily get passed onto the consumer. And my example was that Google pricing in the UK did not go 'down' when the tax rate went 'down'. So why would the price go 'up' when the tax rate goes 'up'.
Sure, but one result of that is that in SV, networking is less important. You can email your resume to a recruiter at any funded company, they'll fly you out for an interview, nobody is expected to know anything about you other than what they can discern in an interview. You'll get 5 to 10 thousand dollars in relocation/sign-on bonus. And the salaries are significantly higher than in Tennessee.

And then you can start networking.
Haven't you ever played Conway's Life? Cells that are surrounded die. Cells that are isolated die. Cells that have neighbors and room to grow multiply.
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We need more data. This doesn't prove anything and the author is just speculating.
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We are launching a subscription-based (monthly charged) product, and have no online storefront or billing service. What is the easiest way to get an MVP up and running? I am thinking Shopify + Chargify. Any other ideas?
Was he, per chance, invaded by a nation that loved its nationalism uber alles? A nation that was only recently unified from many tribes, and whose politicians longing for a great nation resulted in 50-70 million dead?

No thanks. Nationality is whose warlords turf you are born on. The second we get over this concept, the world will be a better place.
Ah, well there you go. That is why they scurried them away somewhere.
Incentive has a very specific meaning, and you don't understand what it means. If I offer you $1 to prance around like a monkey, then I've offered you an incentive to prance around like a monkey. It doesn't matter if you could make $2 slithering around like a snake. I've still given you an incentive to change your behavior, and many people will prefer the offer I am giving and thereby change their behavior.

And beyond that, you have no idea what you're talking about. I just put in my exact family situation into healthcare.gov for Broward County in FL and it is $987 per month with a $12,000 deductible for every Bronze plan. I'm guessing you're entering a ridiculously low income and taking the subsidies into account. Or you're looking at the catastrophic plans and thinking it's bronze, which it's not.

This will be my last response; you are an incredibly naive person and it is not my job to educate you.
There are calls on that forum to start 'boycotting' paypal as they have 'gone too far.' The sad thing is: PayPal have been doing stuff like this for years. I've had hundreds of GBP held by them for months for no reason. When I say no reason: I mean that the agent that finally solved it for me admitted there should be no reason this has happened.
> In terms of a threat to the United Kingdom, or in terms of a threat to GCHQ's budget?

Groups like Anonymous are a gift to intelligence services. They're mildly subversive and therefore "other people" to most people, and most people don't understand what they do or how they do it; they're shadowy and mildly scary.

Anonymous is a force multiplier for budget and mission creep.
If the web community is those hipsters who want to rewrite everything to a fad tech of the month, every month, then Django is completely outdated and irrelevant.

Otherwise, it's just another relatively solid general-purpose framework. Probably not fit (unless heavily tinkered with) for edge cases, missing certain features and has its share of quirks, but still a fine choice for many typical websites out there.
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What are the hidden fees in the S3 use case?
Before you jump on the conspiracy train, most Boto contributors are Amazon employees.
That's the long-term plan, but it's hung up in bikeshedding for now: https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/1175. My faith in our ability to do it soon is evidenced by my release of a new feature release of peep yesterday. :-)
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I'm on Verizon FIOS and since some time after the ruling Netflix has been taking 10+ seconds to buffer initial SD quality where before it was always less than a second. There are times where it takes 15 or 30 minutes to switch to HD and sometimes it never even does.

Meanwhile I can download games from Steam at 3+ MB/s, torrent at the same rate, and so on.

Maybe Netflix suddenly got a ton of demand shortly after the net neutrality ruling or changed their software, but frankly Verizon doesn't get the benefit of the doubt. They've done so many sketchy things that at this point if they aren't doing this on purpose they need to prove it.
Yep, google was complacent until Bing showed up. Then google released instant results, improved its images and video results. Bing had a better version of initially). Competition is good.
Exactly. I purchased the 1.5 ebook version, and was also going to buy this one if it was priced reasonably, but won't bother buying the paper version.
Reasons for the print-only decision here http://twoscoopspress.com/pages/two-scoops-of-django-1-6-faq...
> Which means the profit margin is shrinking.

Not if you judge by the telcos' profitability.

The cost of transferring each bit is exponentially decreasing as network equipment tracks Moore's law. Their costs are going down, not up.

What this is really about is damaging competitors to their cable TV operations. Wail about Netflix using a lot of bandwidth, never mind that the cost of providing that bandwidth is falling as fast as the demand for it is rising, and you can put on a good show for the regulators as to why you need to destroy Netflix and push everybody back onto U-verse and cable TV.
They don't get a minimum wage. That's the reason they're off shore.
Bribery is illegal. That would be a very risky thing to contribute to.

Has anyone done a kickstarter to buy cocaine in bulk?
you just make it again. :p
That depends entirely on whether you see bandwidth costs as revenue or an expense. For many of these companies it's both, but generally they make most their money from consumers, and in that case it's an expense (to the degree it's got an ongoing price at all, given peering arrangements).
As we are in an expansion, we don't really need stimulus, we need retraction of the policy changes of the last 35, and particularly the last 15, years that redirected more of the gains from private sector expansion to the capital and the very upper end of non-capital income earners, at the expense of everyone else; stimulus in these conditions doesn't really address the fundamental problem. At best, it provides a short-term backstop against the fundamental weakness of a poorly-distributed expansion crashing back into recession, but even that is hampered by the same distributional problems when using traditional monetary and fiscal stimulus levers.

Sure, from the POV of much of the workforce the economic. car isn't going anywhere, but stimulus is like trying to give it a jump start when the engine is runnin but the transmission is in neutral.
I, too, get so angry when people do stuff. It is simply infuriating!
Also I do not think that Verizon would be targeting Amazon's S3 platform, even if it was a small subsection of it. Too many webservices use it and Amazon is no small player either. There are easier ways to limit Netflix bandwidth through data stream throttling like they do for torrents.
If you offer unlimited bandwidth and it's not working out financially, the solution is one of the two:

1. Increase the price for the subscription

2. Remove unlimited bandwidth for the subscription and go back to volume based models

It's pretty simple, really. You offer a product where cost is higher than revenue? Change the product, change your process, or change the price.
It told me it was vulnerable
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Then I don't think you've used VS much. Intellisense with tooltip comments, templates and code snippets. Most VS users haven't scratched the surface of its power. IntelliJ borrows a lot of the ideas from VS btw, their Resharper addon is excellent. I've also used XCode and Eclipse, they're poor men's versions of VS.
>silly to argue that dedication, concentration, work ethic, attitude, family support are not cultural.

No, it's silly to argue that they are. You've exclusively mentioned virtues that are as common to every culture as they are to every grouping of humans that hasn't been designed intentionally to exclude them.

Culture largely consists of meals, hairstyles and clothing, dancing and mating habits, religion and racism, architecture, crafts, holidays, and nostalgia over mass media touchstones or memories of common suffering due to weather, famine, dictatorship, and war.

When people speak about culture writ large rather than a specific subset, it's usually when they're accusing foreigners or immigrants of lacking "dedication, concentration, work ethic, attitude, [and] family support" or explaining why the citizens of one's own country haven't achieved the "dedication, concentration, work ethic, attitude, [and] family support" of some country with more civil rights, and therefore aren't ready for more civil rights.
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So the committer added an option to avoid the expensive behavior and that's a sign of evil?
We're working on mass hosting for OpenAtrium (open source PM tool) and CiviCRM (open source CRM).

Obviously we're pretty big fans of open-source. Let me know if you want beta access: http://praxis.coop/en/contact (forgive the website, it's new).
Yes, I believe so. I was just addressing a the original suggestion, which was to avoid using promises and use vanilla callbacks instead. In that architecture, exceptions don't seem to be workable.
Again, the distinction is that the use of the CI is not a violation of the defendant's constitutional rights. Hiding the existence of the CI doesn't have the effect of hiding a constitutional violation by law enforcement.
I loved the 1.5 version, and just ordered the new version. If Pydanny or Audrey stops by to read this, I have a suggestion.

You two should write a book aimed at someone entirely new to Django. I've seen your book often recommended as the second book on Django you should read. However, there isn't a good first book that isn't very outdated. How about "One Scoop of Django", as an intro for someone brand new to Django? Perhaps more example based, but still with your fun style. Or you could expand your current book with some new chapters.

Thanks!
Setting people up to make fools of themselves is not defamation though. Nor is factual spin.
The video doesn't change and it was pretty fast when I first viewed it. At Facebook scale I'd guess they have to generate the video in advance. Would love to hear from anyone who worked on this feature.
It's simple. NetFlix is already paying for that traffic. The users are already paying to get access to the Internet.
The ISPs are trying to make complicated arguments so that they can get away with charging the same traffic twice.
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I don't think the author is expecting any special treatment, but rather questioning why the local option seems so dead-end to so many young go-getters.
I was thinking a lot simpler - keep tabs on each ISP in each market. Determine who has the least discriminatory network. Once enough data is collected you can make recommendations. ISP X is the best, ISP Y is the worst, anyone who cares needs to switch from ISP Y to ISP X. No bitcoin needed.

You can have a coordinated event, a cancellation day where all users of ISP Y cancel on the same day and switch to ISP X. Make a big deal about it. Tell your friends about it.

The one concern I have is in certain markets there might not be enough competition. If all the providers in that market are throttling then you have a stronger case for the government to get involved. Heck, there might even be collusion in those markets. But you might be able to bypass any government enforcement of Net Neutrality if there are enough well informed consumers punishing the bad ISPs and patronizing the good ISPs. It aint rocket science.
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I've certainly enjoyed the technical challenge of bringing in best practices and better tools, and I've really enjoyed playing the emissary between dev and ops (a co-worker once called me a "one man DevOps team"). But the fact that there's no visibility until things go wrong - there's a real problem with the responsibility/authority ratio in that role.
Currently: discussions, virals and memes happening right now on Twitter.
We tested this with some Super Bowl social data we collected as part of a project.

First: looks really good, very easy to integrate.

Next: Am I missing it, or is there no way to visually represent the edge strength? Everything appears to be a 1px connection no matter how strong the edge.
> Am I missing something?

Yes. If you went to high school, you may recall a certain type of person: They'd pick someone else, anyone else, and make fun of them for no reason other than to elevate themselves as an arbiter of taste.

"Ewww, reg is wearing a bow tie. What a fashion disaster!"
Yeah, well the Metropolitan Police thought it was worth infiltrating the Stephen Lawrence campaign http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/jun/24/stephen-lawrence-f...
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"There's no reason for both to rise"

The "visible foot of the government" is quite enough. 2,000 pages of unread "law" can force all sorts of negative changes, and then there's the electronic health record (EHR) requirements in the "stimulus" bill, including the single sentence on requiring "meaningful use" which expanded into 700 pages of regulations, a lot of well paid consulting, and what looks like so far worse medical care as healthcare workers have to focus on the computer instead of the patient to avoid losing their jobs.

There's also the host of taxes in Obamacare; just the medical device tax alone will obviously raise the cost of care.
I read a paper recently and in some cases anyway, even the operating system doing TCP for you can be slow.

The paper was "Network Stack Specialization for Performance" and by moving pretty much all of tcp out of the kernel and into userspace they were able to get a web server that outperformed nginx 3.5x or so. The point of this particular paper was that, as the title suggests, keeping these things generalized as they must be in the kernel comes at a fairly significant performance cost.

Now obviously I don't want to have to write tcp for every network application I write, but it is interesting to think of such things as libraries instead of in the kernel, where I can pick the tcp that I know performs best for my particular application.

http://conferences.sigcomm.org/hotnets/2013/papers/hotnets-f...
Agreed, I doubt Amazon had any evil intentions with this change.

I wonder more if this was a product of Amazon developers using S3 (i.e. dogfooding) and not noticing the cost side effect because I'm assuming they don't get billed?
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That's because you're playing it on creative mode though. Starts you out as a white dude born in the USA and also turns off the mobs. Things get a lot more interesting in Survival mode where you could be born in a slum in and you start seeing mobs like "Birth Complications" right out the spawn zone.
Cool! On the topic of tech and music: here's an app that lets you play your favorite YouTube music videos and SoundCloud songs by voice: http://youtu.be/cyS4TlBkTns