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>Huge torrents are hard to get

I'm not sure about this claim. From personal experience using ADSL, a 3G USB stick, my uni's 100Mbps connection back in the day and lowly 128k ISDN, I'd say that a torrent can either saturate one's connection with a healthy swarm or be slow as molasses due to the lack of seeds. I'm not sure how a seedbox can bypass the inherent mode of operation of the Bittorent protocol.
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Not sure how many countries have jaywalking type laws, but in every country I have lived in or or been to, bar the US and (after reading the below link) Singapore, it's just called 'crossing the road http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaywalking
Ah okay. Did not know there was a merge function!
As a Ninefold employee, I'd like to think we're pretty good. We do virtual servers and we have a solid Rails platform as well.
A better example is Netflix, which features movies that are rated NC-17.
I use this small commandline application called assword[1]. Available on Debian and probably quite easy to get it to work on other GNU/Linux based systems.

[1] http://finestructure.net/assword/
The overhead of an employee is too high to make low hours work. You will almost certainly need to do freelancing / contracting.
My own plug which I apologize for, but there's a good collection of interviews with iOS developers and the tools they use here: http://www.objectivesee.com/ that I genuinely think anyone reading these comments would find interesting.
Yes. Debit cards are issued by Mastercard. Though I can't completely blame Google or Apple since our government is a bit protective and requires some extra paperwork. Still, accepting Debit cards would help reducing piracy. A friend wanted to buy some apps for Windows Phone but he recently switched to Android because you can pirate and Windows Phone store didn't accept debit card!
I tend to agree with you. For some large interconnected systems, long tail latencies have a high complexity cost because you need to code around the 1% cases when (for example) web service calls take much longer than normal to return results. Client code becomes more complex.
Another suggestion (now that this post has been extended) is Mattt's new collection of CLI tools called Nomad http://nomad-cli.com/
Your technique is less good (on IE11) when you resize the width of the browser. The text finish outside the div, while DigitalSea's solution works well.
Maybe not in America but India's different and remember, smart phones made in third world countries have different markups since manufacturing is cheap and nearby.
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If retired, why live in an undesirable place like Las Vegas solely to save money? I'd go overseas to find a more enjoyable environment with cheaper COL.
Can you name some good alternatives?
The old VHS vs BetaMax might be a study in the subject, but I'm not sure if it's relevant these days.
Sort of like the iOS App Store...?
I thought this article was satirical.

I sometimes have to wonder what someone from a poor, war-ravaged country must think when they stumble across things like this.
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1. They should have compare it within the same price range. $20 DO Droplet will definitely perform better then the $5. While the difference is should not change the outcome, it would have put DO is a fairer position.

2. I dont think Linode has officially roll out their new Storage System yet which is SSD + HDD Based but not using SSD for cache. At first I was skeptic of why not solely using SSD instead. But the results speaks for themselves, although one should note this is still in beta and not being used in Production so performance could degrade once the mass majority are on it. Compare to DO which is a real world performance.

3. There are whole loads of other things Linode does better then DO. Linode has pooled bandwidth, which to this date DO still haven't got round to implement. Different Linode are on different Hardware by default. Which DO is only just started doing it in a few cases. Bandwidth and Latency on Linode are far better. Linode has IPv6. Linode has a very decent Nodebalancer.

DO wins on memory / price and Control Panel. Other then that Linode wins. Linode now also offer metered per hour billing ( in beta ).
You can also stream immediately without waiting for the torrent to complete.
It's true that on the surface, this schism seems absurd. However, I believe there's a little more nuance to it than you realize.

Middle-class parents in a low crime neighborhood don't really have to worry about young Sally growing up to be a psychotic warrior because they to occasionally watch blockbuster movies like 300 or Saving Private Ryan.

But if family movie night regularly included films like Eyes Wide Shut or Fifty Shades of Grey, one can certainly imagine it may influence a young adult's sexuality. And at a time when they are exceptionally impressionable and have particularly poor judgement no less. This is an unsettling thought to most parents.

That said, I do believe that Americans generally overexpose their children to bombastic, violent movies. I'm certain that this has something to do with our relatively higher violent crime rates. I'm not sure if our media shapes our collective consciousness or the other way around. I suspect it's both.
As an aside, you should always force packet encryption and randomize your torrent port. That should help with throttling.
if that's was it's first name
it should be renamed back to LiveScript
So almost one-third of Windows machines are about to be unsupported. That sounds scary, but what percentage of those XP systems are anywhere near current with updates anyway?
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He's not saying "hasn't changed". He's just saying that he was using something that could easily be described as "cloud computing" four decades ago.
http://search.dilbert.com/comic/We%20Didn%27t%20Have%20Zeros (Sept 8, 1992 Dilbert)
"It was originally going to be called LiveScript, but was renamed in an ill-fated marketing decision to try to capitalize on the popularity of Sun Microsystem's Java language "
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I've considering i3, xmonad, awesome, spectrewm, and any others you're willing to suggest.
I'm trying to figure out why my Chromecast's video sucks so badly. On my 1080p HDMI TV the pictures it uses look great but if I try to cast something to it, it looks like badly scaled crap. I selected "hyper high res" mode or what ever they called it which helped but many it still looks pretty crappy.
I have contractors only and have them use their own computers. I have used company money for things like surge protectors in the office or a tablet for testing.
Well, he said that "accessing a service that's out there somewhere" is "exactly" what IBM was offering in the 70's. I interpret that to mean that it hasn't changed.
What's crappy about this? It sounds pretty cool.
Sure, it may be less important, but I'd hate for someone to think that means it's majorly less important (in other terms, unimportant).. letting a car warm up in cold weather is good for it, regardless of innovations.
Still not at big co RFP level, a good deal of it is subcontracting.

Ariba didn't work out so well, the projects are usually pretty old and you find much bigger companies tossing their hat in the ring. I wound up breaking into big company stuff by working with an agency to start, doing a good job and then the Tech Director started hooking me up with other Tech directors/projects to take me to the next level.

Similar to above, the projects were big and public but the key for me was word of mouth. Every piece of work I did yielded me multiple new clients and repeat work.

Yep, usually need 500k-1m of general liability insurance. Some require even more which I don't yet have. I don't have a DUNS number but that hasn't hurt me yet. You do need to be an LLC or Corp and have your books in order/no skeletons. One problem is I don't have a long history to point to. Some RFP's require you to show longevity which I don't have yet.
This is great but how long until it gets shut down by RIAA or it's posse crew members and the founder gets slapped with a huge fine? If anything they should operate in a country where US does not have a good expedition treaty.
Agreed, I've never had a design come out nicely from offshore. Maybe I worked with the wrong folks but it has been consistently poor every one of the times I tried it.
I'd worry more about the problems we can't see coming than the ones we can, personally.
That strikes me as being pretty much the same as saying that English is only nice because you've been trained to believe it's nice, and why not write your language in Klingon instead?

When you're dealing with human interfaces, existing convention counts enormously.
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Ah, I wasn't aware of that, very good point!

The goal of the tip is really to stop users SSHing in just to fix that one little thing, so you could still allow your automation frameworks SSH access and just disable it for users.
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How is it different from http://boxopus.com/ , boxopus at least has a free tier , put.io doesn't.
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Nah, I believe that. I just expected Google would be a bit more anal about stuff like that.

And if you'd ask me about my opinion; I feel fine about them hosting it.
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Yes. This is one area where I think having some rules in place can go a long way towards eliminating malware and extremely buggy software (sometimes, but better than nothing).
It doesn't quite count as a tiling window manager, but I just use compiz with the grid plugin, and it gets me everything I wanted from a tiling window manager without losing the ability to move a window around freely occasionally. That plus the cube, no window decoration (that really helps clean things up), and some convenient keyboard/mouse shortcuts makes for a really efficient desktop without the restrictions of a pure tiling window manager.
The old days? Isn't this what the Five Eyes partners are doing for each other now? Now or then, it's breaking the intent of the law. If we mean to spy on our citizens, then dadgumit, state it explicitly.
Yup, this was the intention. You could still allow your automation processes SSH access, just disable it for your users.

The idea is that if a user can't SSH in (at least not without modifying the firewall rules to allow it again), it will force them to try and automate what they were going to do instead. It worked well for me, but it's probably not for everyone.
Stop making generalizations. Plenty of white people immigrated to the US in the 20th century. Still more didn't live in slave states and had little or nothing to do with the slave economy.

My ancestors spent the 19th century being exploited by the British Empire in Ireland. Nobody in my family had a thing to do with slavery, and there are millions like me.
Over half the people we've had sign up are not current on XP updates.
If you look at many of the most successful companies, many solve a problem people already had and the solution is either simpler or cheaper than existing solutions rather than being the first to solve a problem. Google wasn't the first search engine. Craigslist didn't invent classifieds. EBay didn't invent auctions. What they all did was solve a problem more simply and cheaply than existing solutions.
That echo chamber is particularly strong though. Here in Atlanta, I usually don't see a single MacBook when I go to Starbucks to work in the afternoon. Lots of iPhones and iPads as auxiliary devices, but almost entirely PCs getting work and study done across every demographic.
+1 for github's desktop app. Very very easy to use, and only requires a basic understanding of git. Might still want to have a git expert on call, though.
People think computers will be able to understand what we understand without experiencing what we experience. I think that's a mistake. A computer without hands will never see what we see when we watch baseball. A computer without facial muscles will never see what we see when we see a person cry.

No creature could ever hold a conversation with a human about being a human without experiencing actual human life. The pooping and the drunkenness and the boredom and the hand holding and the uncomfortable shoes, and the slipping on ice--all of it. No amount of reading or looking at photos will create an understanding equivalent to the one we get from continuous interaction through a human body embedded the actual world.

Now, you could give a robot all of those experiences, but that AI would run into exactly the same intelligence challenges that a healthy aging human runs into. Not the memory loss and all that, but the ideas start to solidify. Certain things start to see unquestionable. Strange ideas seem like a waste of time. Some of aging isn't decrepitude, it's just side effects of the pile of data getting bigger.

Sure, being able to extrapolate more moves into the future (a la Deep Blue) will lessen some of that. But not all.

AI fantasists act like the limits of human intelligence are all human limits. But some of them are just the limits of intelligence.

I believe the cyborg reality will last a very, very long time. Biological intelligence will not be killed off until the great slow turning off of lights that the second law promised us. And at that point the robots won't be spared either.
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Isn't there a weighting mechanism that if you're uploading fast, you'll get prioritized for new pieces?
The "Report of the Surgeon General's Workshop on Pornography and Public Health" in 1987 identifies a clear and present danger in pornography, among other studies.
I've also been on the five dollar plan for over a year. Also, never been asked to upgrade.
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> We should be better than this.

Well, the US did vote for the guy who said he would close Guantanamo. So it would seem most are better than this, but not the ones who matter.
Past the Patterson/Hennessy books, Shen/Lipasti's "Modern Processor Design" was really helpful to get a better sense of the implementation details of real chips, especially when you move past the 'conceptual' views (e.g. Tomasulo) and start to ask how instruction schedulers or renaming or load/store buffers actually work.
What happens if someone picks my lock.

I think I'll stick with my 20 doors with 20 locks.
This may work: http://keepass.info/help/v2_dev/scr_index.html
Opportunity cost is important to consider, but it's not the same as cash out of pocket.

And if you're going to include the opportunity cost of the house, then you also have to look at the cost of other options. Having a mortgage house costs money, and rent costs money. A paid-off house that you can maintain yourself may be the cheapest option - though that's not true for everyone all the time.

There are unconventional options that are much cheaper (camper, RV, tent) but that's a whole different lifestyle.
I was a costumer, before focusing entirely on torrents, they also provided downloads for Rapidshare-like-sites, where you could download one file every two or three hours, which was pretty inconvenient. Put.io had a few premium accounts, so they downloaded that for you.

I guess then the premium accounts were suspended as it was hurting Rapidshare's sales and Put.io stopped offering that service.

Put.io is awesome, it's a very good and very well executed idea, but it was even more awesome a few years ago, and less expensive.
I fully agree. Syntax is the least of my concerns when I'm using a programming language. I use many languages in many IDEs and editors, and when I'm coding, I don't really see syntax, I see the algorithms and patterns behind it.
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Even though it's time to explore the pebble app store, it seems impossible to do so without creating a pebble account. All I want is to see the apps, to decide if pebble is worth buying. Apple allows you to browse their App Store just fine. Oh well.
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This sounds an awful lot like what they were saying about python 10 years ago.

Perhaps the problem is that we have a large opportunity before us and it isn't obvious which frameworks are going to win.
Thing I wish I'd known before I started: Don't rely on proprietary AWS solutions when open source solutions work just as well.
GPUs are somewhat VLIW aren't they?
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To be pedantic, they're usually held up by a counterweight or by hydraulics. They generally move by magnets, though.
I will also heartily voice my love of this service. It has totally changed the way I view movies and TV shows.

I'm a technically-inclined person, but I really don't want to spend hours fiddling with torrents. The instant torrent completion is an absolutely killer feature. The UI is easy to use and dead simple. The developers regularly update the site and let us know when there are disruptions.

I'm a "broke" college student, and to be honest, out of all of the online services I pay money for, this is the one I think the least about before purchasing.
Installed it, seen "I understand that my encrypted data will be sent to LastPass" then uninstalled it. O_O Yeah, definantly better use KeePassX software. Passwords should never be stored online no matter how secure the service claims to be. Especially with recent revelations about all this privacy/security issues in USA. The KeePassX is still in alpha stages, the only availble stable linux version right now for KeePassX is v0.4.3
alias rm="rm -v" helps.
You are right. The technology has evolved but the concept is the same; we had terminal servers connected to the nearest point of their private network over a dedicated line and they run our software in one or more of their servers.
Not with Amazon you aren't, they are amazingly stringent in their pricing on this matter.
Took me 3 minutes to get put.io working.

Name one seedbox provider that can be set up that quickly.
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I wrote this (https://github.com/posborne/putio-sync) a few weekends ago for automatically grabbing content from put.io using their API (https://put.io/v2/docs/index.html). Pretty handy and performs downloads quickly by doing multi-segment downloads. Pure python and MIT licensed -- should be pip installable from pypi.

I string this together with another script to rename content and it drops right into my Plex library.
You just described a VPS, not a seedbox. Seedboxes are turn-key operations, login and link/upload torrent file: tada.
Nice. This will also work well in places that has frequent power cuts.

It is kinda funny when I went back to my home-town. Most household have Washing Machines lying around, unused because they don't have the power required to complete a wash cycle.
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This.

Copper is always in demand, has a bajillion uses, and can be scrapped and reworked very easily. This is why you hear about meth heads stripping copper wiring out of old homes. It's not that the copper is incredibly precious. It's that the copper is so easily liquefied into cash at any number of one-stop, no-questions-asked destinations.

Copper is expensive as a building or product material, not in and of itself, but in relation to many of the alternatives in any given application. Small differences in component costs, scaled over large supply chains, add up to huge differences in margin at the macro level.
Actually you just came across like a tool.

You understood their point, had nothing to add, so you thought you'd be a tool instead.[0]

[0] Just as I have done.
off course they do.
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It'd be really cool if one of these websites integrated with Amazon S3 (i.e. download it and store in one of my buckets). I don't need the storage, just the bandwidth.
Google, Yahoo and AOL all support(ed) OpenId login using their site as an IDP.

Google's FriendConnect was built on it.

That's a fair bit of "push".
It's much more expensive than $0.99/mo. That's just for a one-day trial. The cheapest plan they offer is $10/month.
I wonder how that varies regionally. I spent a couple of years traveling and working at coffee shops, and my observation is that most places, similar to where I live in Minnesota, have a high degree of MacBook usage in coffee shops. When I go out here, it's usually about 80% macs.
A website I've run for several years is now visited by 30% Mac OS, growing from 18% in 2008.
I found this: https://github.com/mozilla/persona-gmail-bridge/pull/114
+1

There are so many factors that come in that unless you're there on your own, you cannot decide. Even advice from people does not really work because people have so many filters and biases themselves.

i work at a fairly challenging workplace and love it here. i do have colleagues who hate the job for precisely this reason.
> chock full of graphic violence

In France we don't have any special opposition to either sex or graphic violence in movies (if you check the minimal age required for some movies on imdb, you might be surprised by the amount of movies we put at 12 years old when other countries do 16 or 18), and Hollywood movie have become "tame" enough that dubber (movies are dubbed in french) often add swearing to make it sounds more realistic ...

Hell, even Die Hard turned PG-13.
So as far as I understand, this service basically just equates to a way to download torrents faster. Sometimes much faster, but still, that doesn't seem super important. Also, can someone explain to me what kind of torrents people would actually use this for? They seem to have a huge emphasis on videos, but they also say that they don't allow copyrighted content. Maybe I just don't know much about torrents (I mostly use them for things like downloading Ubuntu), but I don't understand what kind of legal videos people would be torrenting so frequently that they need this.