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> (Also, why even bother charging me $4? Just make next-day shipping free and charge $4 more for the thing.)

Because people are psychologically manipulable idiots. They'll click on the cheapest search result and go buy from the other site that lists it as $4 less. Also, multiple items let you combine shipping.

> Lasership and A1? Yeah right. I love it when they try to deliver packages to my office at 10PM.

Lasership is actually pretty reliable for me, but that's in midtown NYC, probably their most highly serviced area. I find USPS capable of doing the same scheduling idiocy. USPS tried to deliver one package to my office mail room at 6:30 PM for four consecutive days. A week later I finally went to the PO one morning to pick it up, and inexplicably that day they had actually decided to send it out during normal hours. That day there was a pile of 10 packages at the receptionist so I wasn't the only one.

UPS seems to be the most reliable for actual ground delivery, and certainly the best with tracking status when something does go awry. Fedex is about 90%, but occasionally they will do stupid things like fail a delivery if the named person isn't there to sign, and bury it off at some warehouse 10 miles away with instructions for you to go pick it up.

Oh, and as the sibling comment says, Fedex SmartPost is the most hellishly horrible thing to ever happen to internet commerce. I'm convinced Amazon invented it entirely to dick around and make you wish you'd paid for real shipping instead.
Could you post the youtube video?
Managing your risks is fair, but it's not clear that Google Drive is less reliable than Dropbox.

1) Google Drive is a fundamental part of their online office suite, which means it's used internally for day-to-day employee work. Reader, Wave, Finance didn't get that status. Not to mention that having paid enterprise plans means it's a bit more mature than other things.

2) In 5 years, Dropbox could very well be referred to as "the discontinued Yahoo! Dropbox" or something similar. Not easy to predict that either.
I like to see how much real work I can do on 8-bit hardware, e.g. BBC micros, VIC 20, so a bit of both. For example I plan technical dives using Buhlmann in 6502 assembler, printed on a dot matrix.

Come the infocalypse, everyone will work this way.
Uh. It's way harder to setup an android device for debugging. I just had to plug in my iphone and tap "use for development" at the prompt.

I'm porting an iOS app to android right now, and android is way behind on the development side of things.
I really don't buy this argument. Every specific victim of the slash and burn period at Google was fairly understandably, even if I disagreed with it personally. It was also part of a fairly clear realignment that came with a change in leadership.

Google Drive is such a major part of Google strategy, that it seems remarkably unlikely to suffer the same fate.

And if it does? Google's deprecation and data export policies have on the whole been handled fairly well.

I just see a bunch of people still sulking about Reader and bringing it up at every opportunity. I too was sad to see it go. But Wave? It never got traction and even that was open-sourced instead of just being shuttered. The other examples you give aren't terribly persuasive examples either.

I can think of many smaller companies who've dealt with this much more poorly. I'm fairly complacent about Google on this issue.
Is such a well reasoned + researched post deserving of a knee-jerk response?
As the article is from Jun 2013 I should point out the following link (also linked at top of article):

http://trends.netcraft.com/www.digitalocean.com

We have been publicly tracking DO at that address on a monthly basis (I work for Netcraft).
twice as much pay.
Something I noticed when taking a new job at a startup recently is that people seem to latch onto the idea of a USP being some fancy bell or whistle. The idea that "everything else in the market is terrible, we're making it easier" can set you apart seems to be lost on a surprisingly large number of people.
I'm guessing the Obamacare rates will be much more affordable.
Reminds me of the infamous "Show HN: Dropbox" post. One of the top comments:

> For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
Response has been really good (a subjective answer :)). For more objectivity, we've received ~40 leads for one CL post, and got about 10 leads in small little twitter campaign ($5 ad).

People seem to be genuinely excited about collaborative consumption, and we enable route-sharing (I hesitate to use "ridesharing" since the term has become overloaded and isn't accurate to its origins). Passengers are sharing their ride with others, and that's new in the on-demand era.

There have been plenty of mental models built up with the one-to-one sector though (one driver, one customer), so we have seen the need to start explaining from the ground-up, so as to articulate the differences.
Yeah, I am not sure what he would have to pay for a comparable plan before ACA. My point is that he is now legally obligated to drop $5k on something that essentially only provides benefits if something catastrophic occurs.
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What's the difference between paying you to switch, and just being vastly cheaper?
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I have maybe $80k in cash savings. I feel w/ $900k in index funds, it's reasonable to keep ~10% in cash.

ps. I'm old.
Does this happen often? It doesn't appear to be a common issue.
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The android emulators not only are bitterly slow to launch and use, but they do not reflect actual device performance, unlike the iOS simulator.

This makes automated testing impossible on the simulator, whereas in iOS I can run my full test suite (400-something tests) in the simulator in a couple seconds.
I agree completely. DigitalOcean is a classic case of an improved experience through restricting options. You're not able to customize your vps, you have to fit your stuff into their categories, but for many of us that's all we want. It's a factor to keep in mind when building things for others.
I don't know about Americans, but I hope Europeans are staying as far away from American clouds as possible. At least for government use, using non-open source American software should be considered a "national security risk" at this point, with no exaggeration.
Yeah, unfortunately they do not offer uploading just the changes.
We recently moved to the new flat and I had to give up my desk in a hope to do all the coding at work.

Of course you have to do some coding at home, but without a desk it is not so convenient especially that my Linux box is a desktop.

So I ended up having a TV screen instead of a monitor, couch instead of an office chair and having a keyboard on my laps with no desk at all. Kinesis Advantage seems to be specifically designed to be used in this way. It is very convenient and feels ergonomic.

I'm a bit annoyed by the TV which is a bit too far and I have to reduce the resolution for easier reading.

It is fun to see somebody else coding in a similar way.
I used to work on a Unix system with the OS on one floppy drive and the swap file on the other.
>>I know Dropbox will be Dropbox in 5 years.

You absolutely do not know this. Dropbox could be acquired for $99999 Billion then closed in the next 6 months.
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That's a fair point as others have also pointed out. It's that I couldn't even imagine such a scenario. The society I live in, India, you will very rarely come across such a person, i.e., a single person with no dependents owning a house on mortgage. Once you start earning here there's almost someone financially dependent on you :). Could be your parents, spouse, children at various points in time.
>> The average tech CEO does not work 11.5 hours a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year. There might be a few tech CEOs who work that long, but I am guessing for most of them it isn't a sustainable workload.

Articles often get to this by counting stuff that you and I would consider not-work time. I read an article about a banking CEO who claimed to work 65+ hours per week. His daily schedule went from 6:00 am to 7:00 pm each weekday. That included taking calls as he commutes for an hour, a breakfast meeting, an hour at the gym with a couple VP's, and an hour networking at lunch. His actual desk-and-meeting time was about 9 hours.

It's still a large time commitment, but it's not that different from what the rest of us do.
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DINGDINGDING We have a winner. This is most likely why they don't support WebDav (where you could easily employ encryption layers over a standard protocol)

They should just give up the pretense they're providing a service and make it free.

We're the product.
If you're commenting on the ease or difficulty of building iOS/Android native apps in this thread, and you aren't actively building an app for both or have built one before, you probably don't know what you're talking about.

The eco-system for building and deploying apps on both sides has gotten way better in the past couple years. There are pros and cons to both sides of development.
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Agreed. I think the way openphoto/trovebox does it with photos might be a solution to this problem... an open specification with the choice to store it on your own server or your own AWS acccount... then the company provides pay services for hosting themselves or for providing the pre-built back-end and front-end tools.
> their support docs are comprehensive and easy to use

Yes, I've even used them several times on non-DO servers because they're quite good and rank high on Google.
Sure, and AWS is great but it's also not magic. It's unlikely you can literally just take the code that was running on a micro instance and scale it up to a big site in multiple zones without a lot of work.
That's a pretty serious accusation. Do you have any other evidence beyond "This one instance I had performed badly"?
If you looking for an simulator instead of an emulator I would can recommend genymotion. (http://www.genymotion.com/). It's VirtualBox based and incredibly fast.
These specific people would, yes. But how many more people would risk driving drunk if they knew there were no sobriety checkpoints?
> TLDR: About 20% (with a wide margin of error) of rape accusations are false.

That's not an accurate summary of the linked article's conclusions. It makes no conclusion about the percentage of accusations that are false. Rather, it takes as a seemingly arbitrary premise that 8% of accusations are false. From the article:

> Lisak lists seven studies he considers credible, which find false accusation rates of 2.1%, 2.5%, 3.0%, 5.9%, 6.8%, 8.3%, 10.3%, 10.9%....We will stick with the article’s figure of 84,000 reported rapes per year and 8% false accusation rate, for a total of 6,750 falsely accused.

The article's conclusion is actually about the chance that any particular man will be falsely accused in his lifetime. I can't say whether that particular conclusion is accurate. I can only observe that it is meaningless unless one accepts the 8% assumption. Which is rather suspect, considering it appears to have been cherry-picked from amongst the seven studies the author referenced.
Read up "Emperor of All Maladies".
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Sobriety checkpoints are illegal in Texas, anyway:
http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinfo/laws/checkpoint_laws.html
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I don't think it's FUD, adn I don't agree with the approach of 'it's free, so you have no say in it.' I wish that if a service was not working for a publisher (and therefore not getting any more development $) there were a protocol to either open-source it or offer it on a subscription basis with a public minimum target that needed to be reached to justify ongoing operation in its current form (eg Reader, which worked fine for many people).
> Boils down to "I've had to relocate, so nobody else gets to complain."

I'm sorry. That's not my argument in any way.

For one, I support free speech enough that I won't say people have no right to complain. Personally, I think anybody who constantly streams complaints is probably immature and not somebody I want to associate with, but they can complain all they want; I'll simply tune them out.

Looking at the particular case of this lady:

* she is currently homeless, and apparently does not like that;

* she used to antagonize her former landlord;

* her former landlord tried to help her find a new place, but she declined the help;

* she refuses to work with organizations that exist to help people like her, she apparently chafes at their rules and regulations;

* she has the option of moving to Germany free of charge, but refuses to do so.

But my statement that "doing things you don't like is part of being an adult" is true. Many college students are appalled when they discover that the life isn't as easy as they were led to believe. I'm sure I was one of them; it's been a while and my memory is foggy. But complaining that things aren't always hunky dory is silly. At some point you have to make the best with what you have. And saying "but I don't want to move away from my friends" or "but why do I have to pay market rates for a place to live?" simply comes off as immature.
Wow, I have that chair, and it gives me back ache after about 5 minutes! There is no lower back support at all, at least for someone my height... Nice to know it works for you though.
All of those were experiments and not paid products. I don't see Google shutting down stuff that people are actually paying for.
High char count isn't a measure for sound reasoning.
>The hardest part was getting myself trained to be just as productive on one monitor.

Sold my 6 monitor PC setup for a single MBPR. That combined with an external trackpad just takes a swipe or two to get to the screen I want.
Good thing APD is protecting the public by keeping Uber out. The driver was definitely at fault, but we need to seriously look at how we design cities and laws. If the only way to get around in a city is to drive, people are going to drive drunk. Make it easier for people to get around without driving, and there will be less drunk driving.

People will seek out jurisdictions where driving is less necessary because they are safer there.
I use Google Drive and the new price seems quite nice to me.

That being said, I find the web interface for Drive to be awful.

What I want is for the web-interface to be more "desktop-like". For example,

* It's difficult to select multiple disparate files

* you have limited options on how to sort your files

* If you search for a file, it's difficult to open up the enclosing directory (at least I can't figure it out)

* previewing large files is slow/clunky/error prone

* the whole web-interface has an inelegant feel that I don't get with gmail and other Google products.

There's room for improvement there. JMHO
Well, "impaired meta-consciousness" is the problem. It's a fact of human life that when drinking, a person reaches a point where they are no longer able to make rational judgments. Not only about their actions but also about the level of impairment they are experiencing.

This is why drunks are dangerous - after X drinks they look at their car and think "I've got this" when in fact they are so drunk they don't know what they have anymore.
In my experience, Backblaze provides a pretty good upload speed. It didn't maximize my gigabit connection, but it got up to ~25mbps regularly if I am remembering correctly.

CrashPlan, on the other hand, has a horrendous upload speed (a megabit per second or less at all times). The only reason I am using them at this point is because they don't delete your external drive data if you don't plug it back in. Backblaze removes your files after 30 days if the external drive isn't reconnected.

However, they are both backup services-- while you can access files from a web interface whenever you want, it's not the same as Dropbox or Google Drive. Plus, obviously, there's no syncing between computers.
Google Drive Gets A Big Price Drop, 100GB Now Costs $1.99 A Month
AWS, which came about when Hurricane Sandy took down the data center's backup generator fuel supply and much of the team spent days bucket brigading diesel fuel up 17 flights of stairs.
Ha, as if European hosted providers were safe from US snooping.
That's a terrible retort. Downloading and then uploading a terabyte of data can be very expensive depending on where you live, and it can also take a very long time.
I do run tmux and don't have any problems. For clipboard support, I just use reattach-to-user-namespace.
It's done via ACARS, which is a standard thing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_Communications_Address...
By the time you use special binary ARM libraries you should have figured out the difference between an emulator and a simulator and also maybe discovered the possibility to deploy to a real device.
It was your fault. You made a modification to a production database without understanding the full repercussions. You brag about how your refactoring made her software better, but you are ignoring the fact that you got into that mess because of a failure to follow best practices and common sense.
Yes, "applying directly" means that I went to the company's website, found the job opening, and applied from there. Generally that approach involved more research because I was actually able to browse their website and see exactly what they do.

When I say "emailing through Craigslist", I mean that the job listing did not have the name of the company, so my only option was to email them through CL.
Or they might bump up the price 3X+ with short notice, like they did for the App Engine.
15 GB free, 100GB for $2 per month. Your move dropbox.
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So why don't they say that? Instead it's: 9.99 per month for 1TB.
Please ask Doug to write that ASAP :D (just kidding).

NodeJS community (and to some extend, the RDBMS/NoSQL crowd that wonder how to support different version of the model) would probably learn greatly from that type of article.
I agree with the general sentiment, but in this case, I think it's pretty clear it's central to Google's strategy. Now, Nexus phones? Those might not exist in a few short years.
And yet another article has a different story:

"Police said the incident started when an officer on a drunken-driving patrol tried to stop the silver Toyota sedan at a gas station a few blocks away. The car took off, weaving between parked cars then driving at high speed the wrong way down a one-way street.

The driver rammed through police barriers — three wooden pieces held up by metal poles — set up on Red River Street on the northeast edge of the entertainment district. It'd had been packed with revelers just minutes earlier, but officials had cleared the area to create a fire lane."
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Trains are faster if they're grade separated because they don't have to wait for traffic. Not waiting for traffic also makes them more reliable, especially during rush hour. If you can't rely on the schedule, you have to put padding into your schedule, which makes them effectively even slower. Trains are also faster because they have lots of doors and the passengers are waiting at the same level as the doors, and you're not waiting for people to buy tickets, so the stops are quicker. Since they move faster, you can also run a more frequent service with the same number of vehicles (driver cost is a very large component of operating costs of a public transit system) They're also smoother and so more pleasant to ride. You're usually also waiting for them out of the elements.
Great, I'll definitely do that. Maybe we should have a DM twitter chat on how to generalise it before I submit anything? I'm hanseldunlop there.
Seems no one here so far has mentioned Rackspace.

Let's start by saying that DO has fewer features for a complex deployment:

No load balancing,

no private subnets,

(IIRC) no IPv6 at the moment.

No "cloud files" or S3 equivalent,

the scaling isn't as automatic as RAX or AWS can provide.

DO can't host Windows (which still matters for many existing operations, don't fool yourself).

RAX gives more information and granularity on its VM levels.

Finally, support. RAX can do managed services, dedicated advisors, IT support and servers for sensitive data. DO has none of this.

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There are two things DO does that I appreciate (though neither concept is new):

* $5 hosting. RAX is a minimum of $16/mo now, for the same VM strength.

* Application deployments. The ability to one-click deploy Wordpress/Gitlab/etc. is pretty damned awesome.

DO is great for technically competent people who don't need a lot of infrastructure, or otherwise have a consistent level of server/bandwidth requirements for their servers.
This is quite tempting, but the Google Drive client is just too terrible. I've never once had a single problem with the Dropbox client. Ever.
> > The Trello API is well-written, has no bugs, and is totally rock solid. Or at
> least it doesn't change very often. That means we can put out new
> clients all the time without having to update the API. In fact, we can have
> multiple versions of the website out at any given time.]

A very counter-intuitive result: most people would not consider a stable API to let you iterate quickly!
yep. It took a couple months to assemble the funds for the down payment on my house. You also need to figure in that a lot of lenders will look unfavorably on you if the down payment money was just recently deposited into your account. They'll want to know where it came from. So it would not be unheard of for a person to have $150K in their checking for a few months as they house shop and seek a loan.

And while mine wasn't anywhere near $1.5M, I did notice a slight glimmer in the eye of the teller that brought up my account balance. Before we could even begin the transaction I came in to do, she asked me if I'd thought about switching to a different account type because of that balance. I had to cut her off and tell her that today's transaction would be a large cashiers check because I had just bought a house. :)
You're right. Since you don't use that much storage, no one else could possibly find this price reduction useful.
What would be a better thing to bankrupt people for?
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I know Google will exist in 5 years. How can you be sure Dropbox (an unprotifable startup) will be?
Yup Chrome only. I believe they are working on more browsers.
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If you are worried about privacy, you should probably encrypt your files with something like TrueCrypt.
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In SVN, "merging" is a bad, scary, no good word. In Git/Mercurial it's an everyday operation that happens so seamlessly 90% of the time that you don't even notice. The other 10% of the time, you have great tools (i.e. 3-way merge tools) that make it easy to reconcile conflicting changes.
Thank you for this. I hope more people come to understand this more nuanced understanding of change. Please talk about it more!