Probably doesn't work in school settings, but at work, it's pretty normal. Visit any UPS corporate office and you'll see people there look like they wear the exact same white shirt & black pants every day.
It's cool to do it as a prototype language, but I doubt someone would make use of it over php. Until someone ports drupal or wordpress to "the next php language", php in the current form probably isn't going anywhere.
Selenium requires java. There are python bindings to selenium-rc, but you still need the rc server. Normally I don't do selenium so early in the code process, but it isn't bad either.
not sure why you're being downvoted here, but I do agree on the c++ binding infrastructure. I think the things he listed are quite possible in node -- I can't see any of those things he listed that might be cpu bound.
A fairly popular small DNS system was written in node for the purposes of development. Anyone who uses "pow" knows what I'm talking about: http://pow.cx
Investors are savvier than you'd think. Even on a rumor that the vendor is doing an exclusive lock-in with MS, I'm sure you'd see the stock price dip. Investors spend all their time looking at news reports in their target industry, so I'm sure they'll notice something as big as this.
I think the introduction of the SSD is causing site owners to "leave the cloud". I haven't seen any cloud hosting that lets you choose SSD-based disks yet, probably because it's low demand and high expense. The throughput of a single sata3 SSD blows away any kind of raid setup you can accomplish on EC2.
Also, I don't think you even need $10k in hardware. Sounds like you could do just fine with a $3k 1U server. $3k can still get you 16 cores w/ 32GB memory and SSD drives.
The 1GB of today was the 128MB of yesterday. I'm guessing in a year or two, games implemented on webgl will be a step up from farmville and require more than 1GB of memory to run well. IE9 still has a chance to catch up if they end up becoming the goto browser for gaming.
And technically the memory issue has already been resolved if you read the comments in the bug posting. The next GC release won't have any of these drawbacks. So really the problem is isolated to any node projects currently in production.
I guess it depends what you consider "very large". If you're talking about multi-petabyte, then I'd probably use hdfs, but otherwise mongodb might fit. I hear craigslist uses mongodb to store their data since 1997, which is a fair amount of data I believe.
I'm guessing you were an older user, and when sites change TOS, they're required to ask older members to review the new TOS. However new users haven't agreed to the old TOS and thus they won't get the popup.
If that were the case, wouldn't apps like google calendar get cancelled long time ago? I doubt the ads on google calendar are sufficient to sustain the number of users it has on a daily basis.
I'm not sure if Google understand their own freemium model. Isn't the idea to let people use your cloud service at a very low cost, in hopes that they'll scale up and pay more? I feel like there's a huge gap between free and paying $400 a month. The day that the app becomes popular is the day the developer will have to shut it down or get hit with large server bills.
As Wesley Chung noted in his reply on the GAE mailing list, GAE is designed for companies who get very unpredictable traffic. If you get a very predictable traffic, it's significantly cheaper hosting on AWS. Some of my apps previously cost $40 a month, now cost almost $300 per month. I can definitely run these apps on Linode for a fraction of the cost.
I picked GAE mainly because it was fast to setup, but I could have equally chosen Heroku over app engine when I first built it. In hindsight, I wish I had.
It's still an issue -- you have all this data that you have to migrate off of app engine. Some of my friends who migrated on to GAE said it took them almost 2 full weeks to load data into GAE, and now I'm sure it would cost them at least a full month to load data off GAE. The code changes are probably the easy part of the migration.
I don't think it's a small minority of apps. 100% of the people I know who are using GAE are seeing the minimum of a 4x price increase for their app (before the 50% discount). The price increase would actually prevent some small ISVs from reaching ramen profitability. There's a thread somewhere on the GAE google groups containing many angry users.
It just looks ugly, hard to put into words. It feels like there's too many shades of colors & font sizes. You don't need gradients to make a site look good. Maybe you guys just need to hire a designer.
I feel like you have over 20 different shades of blue if you count all the backgrounds & borders on elements -- which is annoying since blue is usually the color for links. Facebook is known for their blue color, yet they only use 4 shades of blue total.
The linked account also has 100k "followers" as well. I doubt a fake Vic account could amass that many considering there aren't that many on G+ yet. So the only other possibilities is that Vic is lying, or someone hacked into Vic's account, neither of which I think are true.
I wonder if it's possible to increase the speeds, without having to revise the chip-on-the-motherboard. Then users could upgrade their speeds by buying a new "faster" cable.
"Our telecom source noted that Intel made an unusual choice in also using active cabling for future optical-based iterations of Thunderbolt ... Intel would not say when official specs would be released to other manufacturers" -- from the article