decentrality

What I would like addressed by someone from Erlang is the reality of Celluloid in Ruby, and do honest comparisons.

http://celluloid.io

Otherwise, the speaker seems like a good representative, but the presentation is so verbose it makes me want to concurrently handle his thesis asynchronously in parallel threads and remove the human... in jRuby, using Celluloid.

So awesome `void main(void)` was explained in a song.

Private Networking is available at certain data centers, like NYC2 == yes, vs. SFO1 == not yet.

But these apply to your desired documentation:

* https://www.digitalocean.com/company/blog/introducing-privat...

* https://digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-set-up-an...

And no Wikipedia.

The argument is made that evolution is based on a light-dark cycle, but is also based on predators who prefer to catch prey asleep. Survival favored those who could awaken and stay awake until a threat has passed or until sustenance was secure. Sleep is often a luxury, and not due to unhealthy life always. And often we are entranced by what we are doing, living our dreams. Sleep is personal and largely subjective, there is no universal truth on it as long as we all have different lives.

It's very close to JSON objects. In fact, it uses JSON/BSON. So it's Hashes of data structures, which MongoDB makes accessible quickly, like a file system must be.

You can also use GridFS to store files in the document database, which actually breaks files into chunks and stores them in collections, also just like a FAT table.

yes, nuerologically true. poverty is lockage in left prefrontal: security. almost total dependency and constant paralysis, waiting for the three unavailable essentials of a self: it's all but locked out of expertise (left frontal), imagination/legacy (right prefrontal) and freedom/assertion/truth (right frontal).

it takes extreme effort to break free of, chemically; it is counter-current from that point to build pathways out, by pure will, which is largely if not totally depleted by fear

key phrase: "concepts that require some imagination"

I've read every single comment. I think there is 90% bias.

I've been a GoDaddy customer for a decade at least, and yes, it has sucked. But in the past tense... when it comes to customer support, checkout ease of use and honesty, etc.

SOPA? Right now even ICANN is a US only institution, so I am not expecting registrars to be entirely respectful. The Bill & Monica factor works for registrars too, like it does for married men in positions of power. I am adamantly against what I see people do, but I don't ever expect it to change unless it changes systemically first.

As I commented elsewhere, yes - domains get bought out from under me all the time if I leave them in my cart and don't buy them immediately. Do I think that's shady? No. I think my ideas are golden, and I treat it like - "if I'm stupid enough to share before I just flat out buy - my bad." They've capitalized on so many things, subtly. Key being subtly.

Their checkout process absolutely looks better, and is not like exiting Tijuana and avoiding buying "chicklets" any more. It is radically different. Their management interface too. Perfect? No! Way better? Absolutely. I am almost to the point of recommending them to others. Now, I just say "I'll deal with it" and use GoDaddy anyway. Not out of any real loyalty, just out of the inability to really say there is anything better to the point of wanting to migrate away hundreds of domains, or starting to monitor two separate registrars. Call me lazy, but they haven't given enough incentive to leave, and they do provide incentive to stay.

Case in point: my wife wanted to surprise me one day and saw that I had domains expiring while I was out of cell reception on a business trip. She obviously has all the necessary to verify she is my wife, and has access to my domains. If she used this to do something bad, this would be a different story. Instead, she was able to have a good conversation with someone who ended up giving her discount codes because she "knew I used them, but didn't know where to get them" and she wouldn't make the purchase until she saved at least 35% as I always said I did, minimum. All my domains got renewed, with a new card being added just to be sure it wasn't using money I didn't authorize - no matter who called. She is afraid of breaking things and still got through the process with positive experiences!

I am not finding the horror stories in my experience, now.

I have had several domains purchased out from under me if I added them to my cart. If they go into my cart, I know I better buy them within 90 minutes or they become search suggestions, or who knows what. Makes me want to keep my ideas to myself until I'm sitting there ready to buy.

Really feeling the CPU caps ( per package ) even at Digital Ocean now, even though the actual packages can scale cores. Would be nice to add/remove resources a la carte. Looks like it'll be at least another 6-18mo before the industry shifts to more concurrent friendly virtual machines.

At Digital Ocean: No ability to add IP addresses, change the RAM, cores ( as I said ) or any other resource without moving up to the next virtual machine. Seems like Linode and DO are not so different after all, but two of a kind.

_why is largely responsible for the success and relevance of Ruby to every level of person, entirely approachable, easy to access mentally and retain, totally engaging, and yet 100% bizarre and akin to doing engineering on psychedelics.

He spent 66% of his talks intentionally avoiding the topic he was asked to speak on, and yet that 33% was worth more than 100% of most other talks. He transcended programming. See deluge of Wikipedia links attached.

The/a litmus test: does _why use stock photography, stock anything or do work outside the sphere of totally original and mostly/entirely cartoon infused? He was/is the unique collage king ( sensory overload + pioneering humor ).

This blog is almost entirely cookie cutter.

The story of how the domain name originated is not _why's style - he rarely if ever had anything approaching a sincere self-narrative, much less anything even close to "explanations" of why _why did X.

A wordpress blog? Could _why actually sleep at night with that existing even for a moment?

So far, testing Digital Ocean, the ability to spin up a new VM in 55-70 seconds, clone over one of my own "snapshots" created on a lower cost VM and configured to perfection, test it for 5 minutes to an hour and then destroy it with the comparible reverence of used toilet paper, has been extremely invigorating and ridiculously useful.

Messing with VM configuration for half the time rather than directly testing during that time and destroying well before the metered hour seems like a practice from century ago in terms of advancement, after what I just experienced when testing Digital Ocean.

And they detected in my 4-7 sentence questions that I was unsure of their platform and gave me incentives to spend the time to try them out, and it made all the difference. I did spend a few hours trying, and I am impressed. Now, all that's needed is the long term testing process with extremely respectable numbers to start with, even before jRuby/Java warmed up completely.

I'm using actor-based concurrency extensively, with multiple actors which stay alive between "requests." I don't hold on to cores for a long time, but I hit them extremely often and let them go. It's a pretty intense mix of fibers and threads.

There are always multiple pools of actors always remaining available, and one request might use multiple pools during the course of creating its response.

If I don't have many cores, a lot of time goes into actors waiting for a core to run on. This means a lot of blocking/suspended pauses. With 8 cores of significant priority, certain operations take 2 seconds that would take 11+ seconds with 4 cores, or more with 2 cores. Looking at stacktraces, the majority of that time goes into purely waiting to resume one actor until another completes a task, then looking further, that actor completing a task is just waiting to get onto a core at all. That isn't supposed to be the case. I need to scale vertically, and I'll end up "using" a lot less than if I scaled horizontally.

I need to get away from using a local machine, specifically my actual development "console" if you will, with my IDE etc, because running all my application on this local machine causes the virtual machine on my local hardware to need to schedule out tasks on its threads.

Because of this real need for actual cores, I can also tell when CPUs have true cores, or "hybrid" cores where there are really 4 cores which simulate being 8 cores.

But NONE of their packages go beyond 8 cores, even with higher priority coming with their higher packages.

I am fine with the fact that I'm sharing cores, I just need more of them.

Yes contracts are meatspace focused, but meatspace isn't object oriented only because it is obscured by the observer right now - more the legislative bodies behind law than the practicing attorneys or the parties to contracts.

With the entrance of pure theory and object oriented worldviews necessary to "open the eyes of the machine" onto what's going on in what it's tracking and providing an environment for, the programmers and administrators of legal systems can finally remake law in the image of reason, and not the obfuscations which tainted reason early on that we have now.

If by "later in your career" you mean 3-5 years from now or later, if you use your time well, you will have more than the requirements for jobs which usually require a degree "or" 3-5 years industry experience. You have a huge opportunity to go your own way, in a massive field, with plenty of resources to get you where you want to go, alone.

It will be tough going at first, but if you are good at what you do, you can out-pace what you would earn with a degree. You will have some "verifiable" acclaim, and you can back up everything you may with evidence you built yourself, while doing client projects all you can. Look through online databases of freelancing gigs, but it's a wild west.

A BS in Computer Science will not serve you well if you intend to do front-end engineering, for the most part. IMO, it would be better to work in online communities of experts such as http://stackoverflow.com or http://ux.stackexchange.com/, earn reputation there, and build a portfolio of past work.

Most of all, stay relevant. If you do projects for your own experimentation, develop them to a point that is presentable, then move on to more paid work or experimental work that demonstrates being on the edge of the field, until you are sure you want to "specialize" in a certain way or format or technology.

On the whole, you can do everything you might want to do, including gain contacts and peer review, without college. Participate in online communities with good offline meet-ups and conferences, etc. Stay connected, eager, and active. In 3-5 years you'll have a demonstrated track record of being self-motivated, well educated, and extremely progressive.

I can't over emphasize how saturated the field is, which will be tough for you with or without a degree unless you set yourself apart. Focus on that, regardless of what else you do. I personally believe an independently created career without a degree will be more lucrative in the long run.

Having a spatial orientation relative to the universe is of practical value to conscious individuals. People with minds have a frame of reference. Updating that is important, since our reality is bounded by our mental frame as much by that, if not more by that, than by our knowledge.

I get what you mean, if this were still a boat-based world. I am saying we are not in a boat-based world now. Our consciousness can re-orient.

Since we don't live in a boat-based world for the most part, it'd be more helpful to tend toward an orientation to a place where people have minds more often than people have ships. Part of why the world is the way it is, is because we don't allow our minds and the mental framework of the masses follow forward to an overall update to what in the world is actually worth orienting to.

So it's not change for change's sake. It's updating to be true to what we know, giving our minds the benefit of advancing onto a better framework.

Digital maps don't distort for curves. They just keep going with the surface of the planet. Remaining true to a boat-based world is a disservice to mind-having individuals.

Sure, but spatial orientation and temporal orientation are too important to leave to arbitrary tool particulars. It's really bad for the mind.

I get your point ( with correction by @JoeAltmaier ) but with GPS and the like being the `new` tool, and with them needing new thought rather than continuation of the old "because we always did it that way"... I'd definitely go East in the future... along with changing calendars away from solar orientation ( Gregorian primarily ).

But as with most things involving the masses, this all falls into the category of why most use Metric versus Imperial, and why that is such a radical change to expect. Still, great to see a post questioning "up" ...

Well, @gregormck, when you blocked @soloandproud on twitter, I got the message. I deactivated the account, unenrolled from solo.im, and will leave this attempt to be of service in the bitbucket.

I just need an off-site email as a fail-over for if my own cloud services are interrupted. I will always want to have some kind of third-party email service for absolutely-must-receive messages, like alerts from the cloud service provider. I live in fear of the day that one of those alerts sent by the virtualhost provider is information about an outage going on at that moment.

OwnCloud looks cool as a Zimbra replacement possibly, for the personal storage aspect, while I finish coding my own stuff.

A better "up" would be East, oriented to the Galaxy as a whole, rather than Earth's roll relative to the Sun.

Sneakernet

This is the first time I heard of DuckDuckGo. I am going to "try it for a week" on all my computers.

This might be just what I needed to start the much delayed escape from Google Search, GMail, and eventually Google Voice and Android. Chrome will probably be the hardest. That, though, I know is Chromium; maybe I can draw the line there.

Appreciated the comments that lead me to http://disconnect.me earlier today.

@gregormck - emailed you about giving you @soloandproud as linked at solo.im

Went to follow it on twitter and saw it wasn't registered. Held it for you & ready to transfer.

Sound thinking, re-asking a question whose answer changes over life. Without complete attachment to your chief focus there is no reason to keep up a previous life.

Domain unavailable here too in the Pacific Northwest of the US.