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As far as I understand he is using S3 as a dumb block-level store. He has implemented a file system on top of S3.

All customer data is stored in different files, it's just that those files don't map 1:1 to S3 objects.

There's Google Checkout and Amazon Payments, neither of which work outside the US. There's also AlertPay, which is apparently used by IPREDator and which is sometimes used by 7chan. I'm not sure whether I trust them more than PayPal.

He's referring to NFS. They are excellent for small-scale static content, but suck somewhat when it comes to scripting.

This thing: http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF04a/15351-15351-33...

HP sells servers with up to 64 cores and 2 TB of memory. Considering the car that DHH just bought himself, they should be able to buy/lease several of them.

They do that for everything but Basecamp[1]. I wonder what they use for Basecamp.

[1] Second paragraph: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2479-nuts-bolts-database-serv...

It seems that the only thing that consistently amuses hackers is recursion.

Michael Collins. One of the loneliest humans in history. Apparently some other command module astronaut was a bit farther away from any other human than Collins, but I can't find a good source for that.

I think the iPad's form factor makes it a nice sofa device. To be truly portable it should've been slightly smaller. There's no way—I think—to hold an iPad with your hands and use both of them for interacting. One needs to support it with one's legs to fully use both hands.

No, I did mean HSV-1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidemiology_of_herpes_simplex

It's the most successful virus.

Or Herpes.

I found Apple's self-description to be a little over the top.

But hey, it's PR.

Aristotle also apparently did this.

Bah. No Street View in Germany yet.

Tried London. Interesting, though the trees did apparently grow through cars. I certainly would be happy if there was more content like this.

And at least one "WHOOPS!"

The usual solution for that would be hiccup, with a few custom functions.

I used iptables to block all incoming traffic. While SSHed into the server. Thankfully, Linode's out of band console works (slow and painful, but it worked).

Thanks for that. I did look at clojure.walk, I just didn't look close enough.

You do realize that the US has higher unemployment rates than any of those three countries? And, yeah, it's not always easy to find a job and there have been layoffs, but there's a bit of a worldwide recession.

The welfare programs in Germany have worked for some time (started around 1900, IIRC).

And I'm not sure were you got that tax rate. Because it's certainly false. I think you are deluding yourself.

This would work: http://gist.github.com/536715

I'm not sure wether this is good style. Probably not.

Edit: Bah. Fixed an error.

Not exactly. Sure, Greece has all those things, but also: extremely shoddy regulations and high levels of tax evasion.

High taxes and expensive social programs seem to work in Germany, Denmark, Sweden, ...

Which will probably summon a quadro-kill-copter.

Klaus Biesenbach, not a programmer, also has a ultra-minimalistic apartment: http://www.wmagazine.com/artdesign/2009/01/klaus_haus and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdkfvPRejSQ

Also, programming is likely to be around in a few hundred years. Programming is AI-hard. Few other lines of work are.

And there are oystrovegans. Who eat vegan food and oysters. Because oysters have the mental capacities of venus flytraps. Incidentally I think this would be a good, mostly sustainable and cruelty-free diet, weren't it for the price of oysters.

I cannot really think of a more insane move that would be currently possible.

Chrome 5.0.375.125 on Mac Snow Leopard: Some kind of layout error. The right part doesn't float properly or something. I'm not sure what causes this.

The Student View thingie is full of errors. "Hallo" instead of "Halo", "dein Name" instead of "deine Naame", the proper base form is "sein". Conjugated: "Ich bin / Du bist / Er/Sie/Es ist / Wir sind / Ihr seid / Sie sind". I know, German is hard, but that should've been made by someone who knows a bit more about the language.

The chatbox, well, I'm not sure what they're trying to discuss, but it's nonsensical at best. Wanda Hoe isn't a common German name. It's also pretty close to Want-a-ho which probably isn't what you want.

There are lots of other errors. Not good. And "Learning will never be the same"? That sounds too dramatic.

/Rant. It's actually a pretty good concept. But it's just a concept without a good presentation.

But how do you integrate guns into a ball?

In Germany Australia technically belongs to Oceania which includes Australia, New Zealand and all those tiny islands. Could be the same in France.