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That's great to hear. Best of luck.
iOS pros: Blazing fast simulator, ability to run tests through xctool or Xcode. Autolayout is extremely powerful, and you don't need to write state suspend/restore code for landscape rotation.

If you're writing a new app, you can probably exclusively target iOS7.

iOS cons: The device limit. This makes deploying apps to your users more difficult than it should be. Xcode is also an extremely weak IDE, but AppCode makes up for it.

Android pros:
Faster iteration with releases, because no review process. You're also less likely to fight app review for dumb shit.

The nexus 5 is only ~$420 with shipping.

Intelli-J support.

Android cons: Emulator is for all purposes unusable. You will need to buy a device. Fragmentation of the OS across all devices.
Here's a good map of the incident:
http://media.cmgdigital.com/shared/img/photos/2014/03/13/5f/...

Seems like the drunk made a run for it but mistakenly went down a street that was closed for pedestrians, which is why there were so many injuries.
The big deal is that in an office you tend to have access to the following only:

* Microsoft Office (slightly out of date version)
* Internet Explorer 8 or less
* Adobe Reader
* Crappy SharePoint installation

If someone can find a way to replace Access that doesn't involve going through corporate IT's 50-year long approval/installation process, it'll be a massive hit.
better then me bro lol
I think you need to divide that by 2 since conversations happen in pairs, and most people in the US are talking to someone else in the US.
There isn't. Apparently some HNers don't understand how to reason about economics.
My point is - they used to have excellent $/GB plans (grandfathered), then reduced the value, and now have improved the value back to roughly what it was before.
You hit the nail on the head in a way I didn't regarding the core competencies in the market.

I think RAX and Amazon kick ass at 2 and 4, and DO is working on 1 and 3.
It's now $12 a year for 100 GB. I'm not gonna tell you to be excited about it, but it doesn't feel like a horrible price.
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Why is that an illegitimate criticism? Kids cost several tens of thousands of dollars in their first decade. A family which can't afford a $190k house and an old Buick should probably consider well whether they can afford 6 kids. Spoiler: no, they can't. Isn't it better to raise 2 kids in lower-middle class than 6 in utter poverty?
Except for all of the security problems DropBox has had over the years, right?
maybe they haven't house, so they hold money.
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It is geared towards documents, rather than large files.
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Maybe you disagree with his reasoning. Maybe his reasoning is illogical or misguided. But dismissing something as FUD without providing any sort of counter arguments or reasoning is worse than being wrong.
What does the article say to advance "single page apps" as the "best thing ever" over other application models that use a clean interface and separation of concerns between client and service?
And replaced with Google Wallet which is, at least as a user, the exact same thing or better and exists on more platforms. That one isn't really a surprise.
It's clear that sobriety checkpoints aren't killing people left and right (that's preposterous). But it's not clear (edit: to me) if they actually save any lives for the effort.
Sitting on just the ball I got pretty good at "slumping", if you grasp it with your thighs and roll backward you can perfectly balance your weight between your torso and legs. No correct posture needed.
To be fare, he didn't have anyone in his car at the time, so Uber isn't liable.

EDIT:

So, was this a stupid local, a dumb kid from UT, or one of the startup brats from the coast?

EDIT2:

"Acevedo said officers initially tried to pull Owens over at a gas station on the Interstate 35 service road around 12:30 a.m. Thursday. Fort Hood officials tell KVUE that the Toyota he was driving was reported stolen in Killeen."

Huh, interesting.
Isn't Linode exactly the same? Easy to use web interface, a lot of documentation on getting the things up and going and the ability to resize linode on the web.
Because if they did, we'd be bitching about how Google has too much marketing-speak on their copy about Drive, and how it's not that innovative since other remote storage companies do the same.
Okay. I guess I mostly used iOS with the simulator and have less experience with their hardware interface. I just found the feature set for ADB to be pretty dang impressive. Most developers never touch even 10% of the the features even though some are very useful. I'd love to see a side-by-side comparison if someone has a link.

On the other hand, having iOS connect easily to a debugger disproves nothing I said.
Right now I use SkyDrive, since I got 200 GB free for two years when I got my Surface. So I'm set for now.

But by the time my free storage runs out and I need to find somewhere to keep my files, I think it will be interesting to see how the prices are. I have a feeling that by then Google will be offering 100 GB for free, trying to get you to keep everything on Google Drive.
What's wrong with his posts? He gives tons of information away for free.
The various goals look really nice and useful, I like the direction this project is taking :) And they have shown that they are able to deliver already, quite an active community it seems.
Hey you You don't know what branding is.
I think in a nutshell you're describing Clayton Christensen process of disruptive innovation (or more specifically low end disruption). AWS is catering more and more to its most demanding users. This exposes them at the lower end to developers who aren't as demanding but prefer something simpler that better fits their needs. The way this narrative ends is that DO eats up AWS from below
In my experience, most support calls are not conversations.
My father died of a brain aneurism when I was 2 years old (he was 26). If not for the safety net of SS insurance and VA benefits, I would have had a much harder childhood.

I would love there to be more. I also think that discounting what we have makes it easier for those that would like to remove them.
I won't go near Google Drive until they fix some serious longstanding issues with the desktop client. The two that caused me to abandon Google Drive (I even have a free TB for 3 years from my Chromebook Pixel):

1. No way to re-sync existing folders on your computer (seriously). I was pushing hundreds of GBs of photos to my Google Drive, and after syncing everything, upgraded to a new computer (the files were stored on an external drive locally). You'd think you should be able to reconnect to your account and point it at the files that already exist locally. Nope. There's no way to do it - the client tries to be so "smart" that it will refuse to recognize existing files, and tries to re-sync both copies (both ways) as duplicates.

2. The desktop client consumes nearly 100% CPU while syncing. I realize that while scanning local folders, the client may need to run checksums on files (potentially CPU intensive), but Google Drive was consistently eating up extraordinary CPU resources even after scanning the local files. I would expect some occasional disk IO and high network IO, but not constantly high CPU usage... who knows what they're doing.

What bothers me most is that Google appears to be completely ignoring these issues, even with hundreds of posts on their forums over years with people complaining about these things.
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Part of the confusion, I think, is that people unnecessarily require "perfect pronunciation, hearing, and intonation" in their definition of "fluency". You mentioned that your wife is fluent in French, but does not have native-like French "hearing". Perhaps she also speaks with a non-native accent. That doesn't detract from her fluency. Arnold Schwarzenegger, for example, would be considered to be fluent in English even though he speaks with a heavy accent.

Babies and pre-pubescent children do indeed have a distinct advantage when it comes to learning sounds, tones, and pronunciation for a language [1][2]. It's also been observed that children are more likely to sound native (in language 2) if they move to another country and learn that second language prior to puberty (see again, Nagle [2]). So, gbog, if your child speaks/hears French, Chinese, and English regularly before hitting puberty, he/she will likely sound native in all three languages. But this advantage doesn't nullify the claim that adult learners can still become fluent in a foreign language. It just means that adult learners might never sound exactly like a native speaker, even though motivated learners can achieve near-native pronunciation in their target language [3].

[1] Babies are born with the ability to hear/distinguish between the sounds of all world languages, but this ability starts to diminish around the age of 10 months (pp 39-40, The Bilingual Edge, King and Mackey, http://www.amazon.com/The-Bilingual-Edge-Second-Language/dp/...).

[2] "Critical period research clearly demonstrates that the probability of a near-native L2 phonology rapidly diminishes as we age", Charles Nagle, "A Reexamination of Ultimate Attainment in L2 Phonology: Length of Immersion, Motivation, and Phonological Short-Term Memory", http://www.lingref.com/cpp/slrf/2011/paper2913.pdf

[3] "The results of this study highlight the fact that learners appear to be able to achieve near-native pronunciation without significant formal instruction in pronunciation which perhaps also evidences the role of implicit learning in L2 phonology...", Nagle, http://www.lingref.com/cpp/slrf/2011/paper2913.pdf
Life insurance business in India is very tightly regulated. In fact till very recently there was just one player, LIC (Life Insurance Corporation of India), which is essentially backed by the state. And LIC, being the oldest player in India, is profitable and has the highest claim settlement ratio, about 98%. Even though I haven't really checked the complete fine print I'm more or less certain, looking at the settlement ratio, that they wouldn't include such clauses.

That's the reason I'm fairly confident the insurance company will take care of everything.
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> I know Dropbox will be Dropbox in 5 years. How can we be sure Google Drive won't be shuttered in less time?

Dropbox could be acquired and shuttered (or worse, data-mined). Google - much less likely, though it does have a tendency to close projects it does't see as strategic.

I'd say the risks are equivalent. Hedge your bets, use multiple services and secure it all with something like Boxcryptor.
Your work environment looks like the den of a trash golem who failed to evacuate in accordance with FEMA recommendations.
What is this "investment" you speak of? I'm 29 and the only asset I have is a very meager amount of cash (after taking debt into account) and the car I finally just paid off, which is worth about %10 of its original value.
I am an enormous fan of Abacus and the problems they are solving. Couldn't be more pleased as a user.
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Download and then uploading a terabyte of data can be very expensive depending on where you live

Dropbox doesn't have a 1TB plan, but 2x500GB costs $1000/year. On Drive, it costs $100/year. That's a difference of $900/year.

I don't know where you live, but around here $900/year buys you a pretty fucking good connection, with blackjack and hookers included.

it can also take a very long time.

So what? You can still use Drive until everything is copied.
If it's so incredibly expensive where you live, then you probably aren't using online file storage in the first place.

And yes it can take a long time, but you might swap cloud providers every 2-5 years, you're not doing it every day. Even if it still takes a month to copy all your files, that's generally an unattended process, so it's not such a big deal.

I'm not saying it's trivial, but it's not a huge deal. All things considered, it's pretty easy to switch.
I haven't used Linode in a few years, but if they offer exactly the same thing, then DigitalOcean wins handily just based on price for many. I know there are other factors that can go into choosing a VPS or similar service, but price is a big deal for many customers.
If you install the Android Intel Atom (x86) drivers and use that emulator, performance is much improved.
So they finally got prices below where they were almost two years ago[1]. Still very yay and that's a great deal, but I'll keep my legacy $5/year plan.

[1]: http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/04/24/google-storage-price...
What does that matter at all; it's no longer legal to discriminate based on pre-existing conditions. He can simply sign up with any insurance company, they cannot turn him down because he has cancer. Obamacare solved this problem.
Interesting. I would love to learn more about accounting. Do you have a suggestion on where to start? (book or otherwise).
To download a file you've created, you have to choose the public file format you want to export it to, don't you? Isn't that the only way to get them out the Gdrive lobster pot?

If you let other people export your files, how do you know what they're going to look like? Do you do test downloads first?

(Forgive the ignorance. I gave up on Gdrive very quickly when I saw what it did to Microsoft Ofice documents....)
No matter what I do, I can't handle bouncing between screens like that. I use my virtual desktops to organize different tasks if I need to work multiple things at once, but for a given task I want as much visible to me at once as possible.
Even if they decide to close down, I'm sure they will notify you well in advance.
Apologies for not being more specific in what I'm comparing. You're right that their TB plan is 50x my 20GB plan, but I was referring to their 100GB plan.

Current plan: 20GB for $5/year ($0.41/mo) => $0.25/GB/year
New Plan 1: 100GB for $23.88/year => $0.24/GB/year
New Plan 2: 1TB for $119.88/year => $0.12/GB/year

The 100GB plan is not a better deal for me, especially if I'm unlikely to fill the 100GB. The 1TB plan could be a better deal but only for someone using more than 500GB.
I kind of like knowing that Google abandons certain markets and that other people have a chance at making some money in that space. It always seems intuitive to me that Google could just crush any business they want with a weekend of coding, but it apparently isn't true, and I like that.
I can vouch for that...
I am not sure if this is true, but from what I understand, once your time is up, the files are still there, but they are read only.
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I think #2 is a strong advantage of digital ocean.

curl https://api.digitalocean.com/droplets/new?client_id=$DO_CLIE...

I didn't need to look that up. It's a pretty standard REST API, with a bit of overuse of GET to make it even simpler. AWS's API is a lot harder to use.
Not sure where you're getting that math. $5/year (current price) vs $1.99/mo for 100GB = $23.88/year, which is about 5x more than I pay now.
I suppose that's something to worry about, but only for the tiny portion of people for whom more than $100,000 is a reasonable amount of "liquid short-term assets". I don't expect to ever hold more than an emergency fund + float in cash, so that's not an amount I expect to ever exceed.
I don't see it as a moral problem per se, but as with other forms of addiction it's too easy to put your personal or family's security at risk, plus there's a moral hazard in that it encourages entry to the market of people who prey on the addiction of others.

I'm not sure what to do about the latter. It's like drugs; I think drugs should generally be legal but it's a fact that many drug dealers are predatory individuals.
They merged the synced folder functionality into the office suite; they can pull it back out.
I have more confidence that Drive is here to stay because of one fact: an entire line of computers (Chromebooks) rely on Drive solely for their storage. At this point, abandoning Drive would be abandoning a lot of other things. This was never true for your list of Google chopping block apps.
This should still raise the question

Should it? Is baseless conjecture informed by essentially no facts, in the echo of a just-happened tragedy, ever useful?

I am going to say no, it is never useful. Many misinformed words are spilled, blame is heartily doled out liberally and easily by keyboard warriors, and everyone feels like they've done the world some good, when they've done nothing of the sort.

Sorry if this comes across as overly cynical, but with barely a couple of posts in, the blame has been casually blamed on high-speed pursuits (no evidence of one, but throw it in there regardless), sobriety checkpoints (in response to a freak incident in a nation with 11,000 impaired driving deaths yearly)...and restrictions on Uber. I expect a Thanks, Obama to appear soon enough.

Don't follow FOX news style "who's to blame!?" thought processes.
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Not sure where you see $12/year for 100GB? My pricing page shows $1.99/mo for 100GB => $23.88/year. Are others seeing different pricing?
Unfortunately, it is nowhere near so simple in the US, and they have no regard for expats. The US treats its expats worse than any other country in the world. The forms are atrocious. And I could go on about being taxed heavily for services I don't use.

As a U.S. expat, I haven't noticed this. The forms aren't as easy as the Danish forms (which are fully automatic and done for you), but not too complex in my situation of just having a regular salaried job. I paid a CPA $200 or something to do it the first time, because I wasn't sure I would do it correctly myself. But the result was pretty readable and basically what I had thought I was supposed to do. Unnecessarily many pages, but simple enough ones.

And due to the foreign-tax credit there's no double taxation. I compute my U.S. tax obligation, subtract Danish taxes paid, and the result is always $0, since U.S. taxes are comparatively low.
For sitting : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9CDhcVTAdc

Similarly there are methods for standing, lying etc.
> I'd love to see a source that shows "hundreds of billions" in actual waste, in an itemized fashion.

This is again my point. You're waiting for me to show up with links at your front doorstep showing you a perfectly digested and itemized list for information that you should be seeing all the time if you have a healthy list of news sources.

So where I see this article: http://www.forbes.com/sites/merrillmatthews/2012/05/31/medic...

Even though it references Eric Holder's mentioning that fraud and abuse in Medicare and Medicaid is probably between $120 - $180 billion, that's not an itemized list. In your mind, I'm sure you think that crusso provided no evidence whatsoever that there's plenty of waste in the budget.

My guess is that your world view just doesn't include the possibility that the government could be tragically wasteful of money. I'm sure that if you looked around at the Heritage Foundation, they probably have itemized lists, but you'd disregard that because of the source, I'd suspect. Really, the only groups you trust to tell you that there was hundreds of billions of dollars in waste wouldn't dare do that kind of research in the first place.

The idea of earmarks is to attach them to a law that was going to pass anyway.

That makes absolutely no sense. Why would they include earmarks in a bill if they were superfluous. They're there to grease the wheels. They're incentives to get congressional votes. They're bribes, but legal.
> 3) read about Melanoma, was shocked how much I didn't know.

Yeah it's weird how little people know about something so prevalent. People are shocked to find how many different types and sub-types of cancer are out there and how different the prognoses vary from one to the other.

I just got the diagnosis a month or so ago (26 y/o, a year after my dad dies of lymphoma... epic wtf's all around).

First response is "Oh, well at least it's only skin cancer. They just cut it out and you're good." -- heh... NOPE.

Also, I was walking around with it and a lump in my neck for months because Dr. said it was only a birthmark, probably just scarred node, etc. Until I pushed for a dermatologist.

tl;dr: Get checked. Be paranoid. Don't take "you're young, it's nothing" for an answer. Demand a biopsy.
Why did you edit away your claim that it is to the benefit of the customers? Being a market-maker and being able to void any trades that occur during volatile periods sounds like a dream to me. No need to worry about adverse selection eh? Just printing cash with fat bid-ask spreads and if anyone dares to get the jump on you, they get voided. I wish I could do that in the real markets.
The ads are also bigger, no?
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If you don't use cloud storage then the product clearly isn't for you, but I'm paying (on the same $5/yr for 20GB plan as you) $0.02/GB every month and with the 1TB plan could be paying $0.01/GB. This is a fantastic deal you can't find anywhere else on the internet (except a couple options like amazon glacier and backblaze which don't let you access all of that data immediately)
Really not trying to troll here, but I want to know why anyone uses a Python ORM here other than SQLAlchemy? It's been a while since I used Django's ORM but I recall the comparison between the two being very heavily in sqla's favor.
Well, by definition being 'cheaper' has a hard upper bound: you can't get cheaper than free, so the total gain is limited to the price of the more expensive product. (If Dropbox costs you $100 a month and Drive drops to as cheap as possible, $0, you only gain $100.) But if they pay you, there's no such limit (perhaps they'll pay you $200, or $2 billion).
Awesome.

Actually Rackspace does have a deployments option under servers that can deploy Wordpress, GitLab, and others. It even handles some of the configuration details right out of the box.
Chile's a bright light by South American standards, it's true - but there's more to corruption in society than the behavior of officials.

For instance, there's more nepotism and cronyism in Chile's private sector than there is in Canada, which reduces the economic mobility of ordinary Chileans.
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Let's assess risk.

Risk A) Google might end support for Drive. They've shown that , if they do, they'll give a lot of notice. You'll have an opportunity to move your files elsewhere.

Risk B) Dropbox goes out of business. Most likely because Google is undercutting their prices by about 90%. If you are lucky, they give some notice. They also might just send everyone home and shut off the lights, like many companies do when they file for bankruptcy.

Where's the risk really?
Nope... states can opt out. So you really need to check the rules in your own state. Like any other thing when starting a business.
your privacy, upload speed and reliability.... YMMV.
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FWIW, I didn't find monetization to have any clear benefit in my analysis: http://www.gwern.net/Google%20shutdowns
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What are some non-American & reliable cloud companies?
Dumb math mistake on my part (to be defensive, I didn't mechanically calculate it out, I 'thought the number').
> Digital Ocean is 100x easier and quicker to use than AWS

100% agree. I really think the markets for DO and AWS are different. DO aims at the "I need a few boxes" sort of user, and AWS aims at the "I boxes and other infrastructure" where other infrastructure is databases, auto-scaling services, etc.

DO feels like Linode felt like four years ago: just the basics at a great price point. (I still like Linode, but they are probably competing with both AWS and DO, which is a tough spot to be in).