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My girlfriend and I replaced cable with Netflix and internet TV (Food Network is online, plus lots of youtube stuff and other channels with food shows). FWIW, many nerds I know love cooking (including myself), so finding good shows (not crappy reality TV meets cooking) was a necessity. Netflix definitely keeps my girlfriend more occupied than me, but for $8/m and lots of variety, it's the way "cable" is (or should be) going.

Vancouver, BC, Canada

ActiveState Software (http://www.activestate.com/)

Multiple FULLTIME positions open. REMOTE possible for the right candidate.

We are looking to grow our sales and development team on our Stackato private PaaS product.

Rather than repeat the listings, just check them out here: http://www.activestate.com/company/careers

   * Cloud Software Engineer
   * DevOps Engineer
   * Technical Support Engineer
   * Senior Product Manager
   * Sales Engineer
   * Account Executive

ActiveState is the world leader in development, management, distribution, and cloud solutions for dynamic language applications. The company’s products and services for Perl, Python, Tcl and other web languages are used by over 2 million developers and 97% of the Fortune 1000 to build and run applications from mission-critical to open source projects.

This happened to software from my company (ActiveState), and we made a request to remove the extra wrapper bits (very much not the user experience we wanted), and CNet complied. Someone just has to ask. [edit: of course, we did also find out _after_ the fact, which we didn't appreciate. We would have pulled our various bits, had they not complied ... but they did]

ActiveState's Stackato already has Tornado support (we have a demo of Tornado Chat with MongoDB), amongst other features that are not yet in Cloud Foundry (Perl, run and db migration, ...). More about those at http://www.activestate.com/blog/2011/08/python-cloud-foundry....

If you want a micro-cloud with Perl (and Python), check out Stackato at http://www.activestate.com/cloud. It is based on CloudFoundry, but enhanced with the additional languages and the ability to port existing apps ('run' and 'dbshell' functionality). Stackato has also been available in the micro-cloud format for months, with docs on how you might set up your own internal private cloud.

Actually some of the others do this as well. I believe that facet exists because of many States gift card laws. Yet another area that Groupon et al may hit issues with in the future.

The IP-based approach seems flawed from my pov as someone who travels often. I'm always checking in from various IP addresses. Even locals who like to log in from the nearest cafe would get false positives, while the canary approach is more targeted.

Steve Jobs was fired ... and look what happened to Apple while he was gone. Good parallel? Probably not, but it isn't a unique situation.