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> Why should I be more comfortable letting Google back up my stuff instead of Dropbox?

You refer to Dropbox and Google Drive as backup solutions. When I evaluated Dropbox, I read that they offer an addon named Packrat that turns their popular file synchronization service into an actual backup solution. Does Google now offer a similar addon for Google Drive? If not, Google Drive isn't a backup solution. And without Packrat, neither is Dropbox.
Neither of us are U.S. citizens. I'm French and my partner is Australian. And we have about half of our customers in the U.S., and half outside.

And I hear you about not over-thinking this. But even if we want to choose the simplest route, it's still not obvious which solution to pick just yet…
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I do not, and I wish I could make one. I started by buying one of those cheap music box kits... not realizing that the scale was simply C Major. That didn't work.

I am fortunate to work with a mechanical engineer who is also an amateur musician. So, we built our own. It was neither easy nor efficient (nor cheap if you don't know someone with all of the tools who is nice enough to donate their time), but we got it working in the end.
Because they use the same school buses for elementary high school, but not at the same time. The routes are based on where the students actually are, so combining them would make transit time significantly longer for each student, plus I'm sure there are other concerns about having rowdy teenagers on the same buses as kindergarten students.
Is that what you have to do if you're a citizen? Or does it apply to permanent residents as well?
They shifted the bus schedule to better accommodate the older kids which means the younger kids had to catch a bus over an hour earlier. My point is "all kids" drag ass in the morning, but IMHO teenagers are better equipped to deal with it than a child under the age of 10.
Same here. Reducing the weird reach for modifiers is a big advantage of the Kinesis.
I think an even better example of potential crypto-anarchist success is legal advice. It could work largely the same as the medical service this article describes, but legal advice fits better than medical advice.
I'm more afraid of government than private industry.

Facebook will never have a Gitmo. It'll never send someone to a torture camp in Egypt. It'll never invade a country. It'll never confiscate property. It'll never put someone on the no-fly list. It'll never harass you at the border.

Yes, we should be openly critical of powerful corporations. But the downsides of misguided governance are much worse than even the most powerful corporations can muster.

So, I don't believe it's fair to compare what Facebook does to warrantless government spying. And I'm glad Zuck is publicly taking on this issue.
>It's quite a bit easier to drink to that point...

Well, that's the thing: the grandparent is judging people who drive drunk repeatedly, while he himself repeatedly drinks to the point of losing consciousness. I just don't see the difference. Why is one "sneaking up on you" any better than the other? Why does one demonstrate better judgment when inebriated than the other?

>That said, if someone does so regularly there is probably something else going on.

Well, that would be my take. Or at least that perhaps that person isn't in the position they think to cast judgment on others who make poor choices when inebriated.

I don't know if there's anyone alive who drinks even occasionally and hasn't gone further than they expected. But, it's generally a good distance between "drunker than I thought" and "I almost went into a coma". And, if it happens once or twice, then OK, but repeatedly? Seems like you'd be aware of the dangers you mentioned at some point, which ironically was the grandparent's judgment about repeat drunk drivers.

And that's the irony that was just a bit too much. It's weird, because there doesn't seem to be contrition or anything. Just, "yeah, I'm known to repeatedly drink myself unconscious, but look at the choices those guys make when drunk".
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> and increasing efficiency, maybe even lowering the strain on the planet.

You might find Jevon's paradox interesting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
Great course. Glad to see Google in the MOOC game.
This graph is about as useless as it gets. All it means is the job has that term in the job description or somewhere.

What this graph really means is... "How many job descriptions contain the term ...". And that's about it.
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Hey Michael, yup this still requires manager approval. Our manager approval is just about the easiest thing imaginable — managers get a push notification when there are new expenses, and they can swipe across the expense to approve them (like Mailbox App). The majority of expenses on Abacus are approved within 24 hours.

Sometimes managers worry that these notifications will get annoying (we worried about that too). What we've found is that managers actually like the transparency of knowing what their team is up to, and it's a great opportunity to send a little love to your employees by getting back to them quickly. It also takes just a few seconds / day. You can turn off the notifications, but most people don't.
I can't be the only one that finds Reddit AMAs hard to parse. This is a huge improvement.
(2013)

This isn't a new revelation.
So the only functional difference is that the government is worse than criminals?
It seems like your arguments assume that homeschooling is, at least on average, worse for the children than public schools. If homeschooling might be better for the child, then it doesn't make sense to talk about whether "parents have the right to deny" children public schooling.
That is not true. First of all, there are at least a few c# opening each month in whoishiring monthly.post. Second, a quick inspection on these posts already gave me a few of these opening that were both looking for junior dev and supports remote.
Then why list specific companies and dates?

Either the companies on the PRISM list are willingly collaborating, or NSA bribed one or more employees, or NSA attacked their infrastructure.

If it wasn't willing cooperation, then the PRISM companies have a security breach to solve. None of them have said whether they have such a breach or not.
> I think at this point I'm a little more comfortable paying more for a company that I know won't abandon this market.

Interestingly, after I read this sentence, I thought "Yeah, I'm not so sure DropBox will be around as long as Google, so I'll stick with Google".

And then I realized you wanted to make the opposite argument.
How fit are you really?
Interesting if true. Do you know where I would look to find the numbers for this?

Also, do you have sense of how such an arbitrage opportunity managed to stay open.
Reminder to self: never update a Politico story ever again. It seems they are a little too eager to tell us with each of their Snowden stories how "many people think he's a traitor".
I agree with much of what you say, however....

At what (little) it does, Dropbox does it very well, but for what little it does, I would definitely not call it cheap. Well worth it for some people, but very marginal for others like myself. I'm not aware of any new features coming out of Dropbox in well over a year, and there are many they could easily add, so as a matter of principle, I would change to a competitor provided their feature set and performance was at least as good, at the same or lower price..
Interesting, thanks for the links. Renouncing my citizenship isn't something I have immediate plans for, but I'm interesting in working abroad, so I'm curious to know how the process works.
Mostly fair.

"Why does one demonstrate better judgment when inebriated than the other?"

Well, I do think putting yourself at risk should be judged less harshly than putting others at risk.
Same in Finland. Earliest time was 8am, but also 9am or 10am or later. Also there are no school busses so usually kids just go to school by themselves, starting from the first grade.
Profile pic looks overly 'shopped: http://frcs3.s3.amazonaws.com.global.prod.fastly.net/library...
FWIW I use Pyramid with SQLAlchemy and it comes with a transaction manager plugin which automates the begin, commit and rollback on error of transactions. 99% of the time I don't need to think about transactions, only during CLI tool development and only barely. YMMV
As a French expat living in Japan, creating a personal company in Japan was surprisingly easy (assuming you have a work visa of course).

It was just a matter of filling a one-page form at the tax office. Filing tax was also very easy, I basically just went to city hall and they filed them for me.

So despite its reputation as a bureaucratic country, Japan turned out to be much better than France.

Of course, I can't help you with the U.S. side of things…
I share exactly the same feelings and experience with the person who replied to your comment previously.

I have a server in each and I like them both. However;

- Linode support is second to none. DO is not bad either but much slower and less responsive. You feel the difference when you really need it.

- I had a CC payment issue with DO since the beginning. I mentioned it to the support twice but unsolved as of yet, using paypal.

- You can't assign multiple IPs to your instance in DO. I have 6 IPs in one of my Linodes for SSL reasons. This is more than enough to compensate the price diff, actually Linode is cheaper because of that.

- No built in, easy-to-use load balancer in DO.

- Networking feels much faster and stable on Linode, at all occasions.

- Small things like "no more Amsterdam based droplets due to IP restrictions" when you urgently need a server don't usually happen on Linode.

Things like these pile up in the long run and you can easily justify the price difference. If have a very serious/critical project I'd definitly chose Linode over DO.
By the way, if you hate the US's horrible tax forms, you should boycott the company Intuit (makers of Mint.com, QuickBooks, TurboTax, and more).

Intuit spends a huge amount of money every year lobbying to make sure that tax forms are as complicated as possible: http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/27/turbotax-maker-funnels-mill...

So evil!!!
I agree. Node.js is JavaScript. Also, the lack of mention of PHP.
They hide it (which I think is foolish). They in fact have a pre-Openstack infrastructure where 256M instance is $11.

http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/pricing/
Just noticed my cool little Browser(beta) menu today!

Cool stuff, especially given that it's being offered for cheap Lite users like myself. I was happy with average req times; this is just icing on the cake!
Steam down (all of it)
steamcommunity.com down
store.steampowered.com down
steam client login down

more:
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> If there is a choice - it is better to place your bet with the company whose main business line depends on the service you are using. Google has a long history of dropping services, because it can.

Depends.

Google might decide to stop supporting it because they want to focus on something else and DropBox might decide to pivot because they can no longer make enough money compared to the costs they incur (especially as Google is slowly squeezing them out of the market with the kind of price slashing we are currently discussing).

Nobody can claim with certainty which of Google or DropBox is more likely to support their product the longest.
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Hiburo is very simple and friendly, the opposite of "social-collaboration software designed for enterprises". It is suited for small teams - our usual customers are groups of 2-10 users.

You don't need to worry about setup, hosting and maintenance - it just works. That's why so many cloud based solutions exist nowadays.
Its a bit deep to understand at first, but once you've been on the platform for a while, its pretty straightforward. I'm going to respectfully disagree with the "smaller set than people initially assume" -- there are huge differences.

Some examples:

* DNS can be set up to round robin
* auto-scaling can be built in
* load balancers are available and easy to use
* For companies with multiple employees various levels of access can be granted to the system via IAM roles
* you can add and subtract hard drives from an instance on the fly (EBS volumes)
* You can set those volumes up as RAID if you so desire.
* You can easily move IP addresses from one instance to another.

These are just the ones off the top of my head as I've been off AWS for about 6 months now. This doesn't even count how well the servers play with other amazon web services, like SQS, SNS, SES and RDS (queue, notifications, email, database).

That being said, I use DO for a few small sites I host because I don't need any of the features AWS provides.
A valid concern.
You forgot the prior war where they fought to secede and won.
I was busy reading the post itself, and just got my eyes on the comments below. Damnit! Oh! Well, there is plenty of concern, regarding google shutting down its various services in the past.

However shutting down Google Drive would be equal to shutting down google docs in my books. It would be wrong to compare Drive to wave, jaiku etc. None of those shut down services were of 'vital' and 'strategic' importance as much as Google Drive is, to the Google Inc.

Moreover, Google is pretty efficient at building data centers, with hardware prices going down coupled with their capability to run massive data centers efficiently in terms of costs, I guess Google is and will remain a major and competitive player in Cloud Storage.
> the point is that homeschooling is being done by unqualified people using unverified, quickly-considered techniques, while public schooling is at least largely done by people who got teaching certifications and their methods get public scrutiny.

But still, you're assuming that unqualified (according to whose qualifications?) people using unverified (by whom?) techniques are worse on average than public schools.

It's not easy to agree on what objective measurements comprise "good schooling," but I think most people will agree that homeschooling and public schooling both vary wildly in quality if we were to agree upon some objective measurements. It's not fair to implement policies for either type of schooling based solely on the worst examples of that type of schooling.
I don't think Zuck is talking about money, but freedom. Sure maybe it's freedom to make money, but it's also freedom to express yourself.
Your old age is certainly showing. Younger children typically go to bed before older children be it their choice or their parents forcing bedtimes. Its only logical the older children should have a later wake-up time.
Maybe I'm too much of a cynic, but this is such a first-world problem... While the extra hour may seem like a lot, the quote from the teenager featured as the "sleep activist" really strikes me how poorly our society sets up priorities - "“I thought, if that happens, I will die,” recalled Jilly, 17. “I will drop out of school!”".

Really?! This is how much value you place on your education and your future life that an extra 30 minutes a day can prompt you to throw it all away?

Growing up fairly privileged in a USSR military family I myself have seen relatively few hard times (country collapses are rarely fun...), but my Grandfather's stories of having to carve math equations out on logs with a knife so he could do his homework because post WWII paper and pencils were in very short supply... He constantly emphasized how much he had to fight for his education and it seared in my brain that I must succeed. Dropping out was never an option I would even consider.

At 17, I managed to work full time, graduate from high school and start at a university, and have so much fun that I keep worrying some odd photo will surface that I have no memory of... Yes, I did not sleep as much as I wanted, but I have no regrets about how I lived life or do now.
Every time I look at rack space it looks phenomenally expensive.

As far as I can tell it's 5 times the cost of digital ocean.
https://support.google.com/drive/answer/75509
https://www.dropbox.com/help/7/en

So much for that.
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Node JS Job Ad:

Hipster brogrammer wanted.
Lack of knowledge of other languages wanted.
Thinking every part of the tech stack should be written in JS.
Must create yet another layer of shit to translate into JS and pretend it is cool!
Must be willing to run to the next shiny-shiny when released and be willing to abandon current projects.
The issue is not whether the average homeschooler is better or worse. The issue is the difficulties involved in ensuring homeschooling does not fail children. I was hoping the parallel between that and my later points about unlicensed doctors practicing over the internet would be somewhat evident.

My post didn't actually say that the average homeschooling education is worse for children than a public school, but I do happen to believe that it is :) This is, however, not based on scientifically-gathered data, so I would welcome data to the contrary.
60 to go.
There's a built-in WebGL shader editor in Aurora that's very slick:
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/11/live-editing-webgl-shaders...

Nice to be able to alter your GLSL and see the results on the web page immediately.
I'm curious, why do people treat Node.js and JavaScript as separate? I understand that the DOM API and Node's core libraries are different, but any good programmer can pick up new libraries and frameworks in a matter of weeks.

I just find it strange that as a JavaScript developer, many recruiters (and even some companies) won't even consider me for a Node position unless I explicitly state that I have Node experience.
This is a program that Wikipedia coordinates with institutions (universities, museums, whatnot), endorsed and managed specifically by the project.
I feel that wanting to be preserved in a casket & grave is sort of morbid anyway. I'd rather decompose under a tree or something, in keeping with the "circle of life" meme.
I don't think it's fair to make every student wake up unnaturally early for the sake of those with any kind of extracurricular activity, not just sports.

Harming school performance and sleep depriving developing children in the time that they need sleep the most, just to give a self-selected portion of the student body extra time for sports, debate team, student council, etc. makes absolutely no sense to me.

>What about we make athletics part of the school day?

We already did, it's called "gym."
Never forget, though.
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I think it's reasonable to assume that unless anyone has proven the contrary, which they haven't. If you were replacing a public school with a private school, I'd agree that it is unwise to assume the private school is worse. We're talking about replacing an entire school staff with a couple overworked parents, though.

Many arguments in favor of homeschooling are about parents' religious freedom or about how the public school system has failed the children, and in both cases this does nothing to demonstrate that the parents are going to do a better job.

I do agree that objective measurements would allow this stuff to be considered rationally, but historically it's really hard to come up with useful objective measurements due to all of the different pressures involved.
Any server you have running in any kind of environment where reliability is a factor should have some kind of monitoring system. Maybe DO should offer this feature like others do, but it's not out of the question to have another droplet running a heartbeat monitor. That'd be akin to them charging another $5/mo for the same service.
Ah, okay. The new NSA data center went online.
they're using Trello to write a Trello post on how they're using Trello to work on Trello.
Gmail and Apps are at best minor contributors to Google's bottom line. If faith in Drive is based on its contribution to them, that Is little reason for that faith to be strong.
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I'm not surprised by this. Node's grunt.js is really useful for minifying/preprocessing js/css files in front-end heavy applications. I'm not even sure how you would do all that with Java or C#.
This is a great article! In my opinion these thoughts also apply to software in general. This is the reason why I prefer BSD licenses over the GPL.

With my code under a BSD license, I just want to improve the world. If anybody can to use my software, very good! If anybody can mash it up with other code to create something new, even better!

If they share the resulting code, its awesome! If they don't share it, there's still something new out there that is helpful for someone and that is still great!
god damn that would be awesome. Even $5 per month would be sweet
Right, I was just pointing out the possibility of your latter two options. There was also the possibility that PRISM was just a database of formal, court-ordered information.

I wish we had even more technical details.
One person, one vote does not mean equal influence per citizen.

I think "listen" deals in influence where as yes, one vote per citizen deals with democracy.
vim-signify[1] supports more VCSs (git, hg, bzr, svn, ...).

[1] https://github.com/mhinz/vim-signify
That's definitely a negative and I appreciate you sharing the anecdote, but it's still an awfully big leap from one bad support experience to criminal enterprise.
Linode has a long history of major security incidents and withholding information from their customers.

So unless your data is worthless then Linode is a terrible choice.
I find this chart to be much more useful. It's not job openings, it's "popularity" in terms of how much each language is being used.

http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index....
A collaborative attempt to do so has lead to the Common Core - http://www.corestandards.org/ - which "... define the rigorous skills and knowledge in English Language Arts and Mathematics that need to be effectively taught and learned for students to be ready to succeed academically in credit-bearing, college-entry courses and in workforce training programs." and ability to measure attainment was one of their internal requirements during the development process (http://www.corestandards.org/assets/Criteria.pdf).
My feeling towards google drive has always been... meh. But this is pretty exciting, mostly because dropbox will have to react and this will mean that whatever service on dropbox I am engaged in will soon get better by some order of magnitude... hopefully.
Shameless plug for my product, ExpanDrive - does this thing you describe and is avail on Mac & Windows [soon Linux] for Google Drive, Box, Dropbox and a host of other storage providers.
Youtube oEmbed endpoint returns an extra ')'?
I agree, but it's often too easy to just add another variable in your controller then modify the view, and now there's undocumented functionality. IMO the full separation is more helpful to stay DRY.
They encourage it. I think the WiR are supposed to write about subjects of interest to the institution, rather than write directly about the institution itself.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedian_in_Residence
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedian_in_Residence
>by crowdsourcing its data

Google does this too. https://www.google.com/mapmaker
He supports Feinstein AFAIK. So..
Why would you choose Linode for a serious/critical project ?

Do you not know about their major security incidents ?