larrymcp

We use WinSCP also, a file copying utility; it would be useful to know whether that's affected if anybody has that info.

Oh my goodness no: I don't feel like that at all! Life just keeps getting better and better for humanity, year after year, and technology drives a lot of that. No reason to think it's gonna stop now...

"Je suis Linode" what an awesome sentiment...

I just signed up for a Linode server. Going to use it for part of our offsite backup storage and to monitor some nodes on our primary network.

Huzzah...

In this one they're both possessive... so to avoid looking unprofessional it would be:

friends' phones' background images

And on the web site, photos is not possessive, so it would be spelled: photos

Thanks; I hadn't seen that that page from Google and that's a pretty good idea to make that available.

You know what would be a cool idea: if Google developed a method of copying an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) to Google Cloud. That would give us an easy way to try out our same servers at Google without having to rebuild everything, as we do not use containers yet.

Hmm. Well, somehow these heavy-hitters have presumably done their research and then chose AWS:

https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/

I see your characterization of AWS above as "terrible", but I'm curious how that squares with the (probably very well-informed) decisions these people made to use AWS.

Congrats on the domain name! I like the name and it's rare to be able to get something catchy these days.

It was funny when the chick at Starbucks called me "sir". Heh.. "sir"... that didn't happen when I was in my early 20's...

Yep... I didn't take my GF to the office Christmas party, cuz I didn't wanna hear the comments. ay!

Well if this is a "race" as the headline says, it sure is gonna be a long race, folks. These cars haven't yet been programmed to handle things like snow-covered roads where you can't see the lines, or construction zones that have you driving on the opposite side of the road at the direction of flaggers, etc... there's just a ton of work remaining to be done if your goal is truly to "rid the world of human drivers".

I am seriously looking forward to a response from PeopleSpark about this post. Will stay tuned!

Edit: It does appear that they've made major changes to their site since those screen shots were taken.

The Mythbusters guys did a segment on the Monty Hall Paradox.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2mykzd

Cool...

Here's a random one I noted from 1983:

  From:   KIM::CALFEE   16-DEC-1983 13:50
  To:     @SYS$MAIL:COINOP
  Subj:   Atari 800 Software Theft

It has been brought to my attention that some stolen Atari computer software may now be residing on one or more of our VAXes.

This is intolerable.

We are a company whose existance depends on software sales, and every ATARI game that was in a cartridge and has been put on disc and then on the VAX is a potential leak to the outside world that can impact sales. Any competitors' games that might be on the system could substantially weaken Atari's cases against piracy in court. People who participate in stealing software are risking their jobs and the company's future.

Please delete all questionable files immediately!!!

As Jed would say, Thank you or else. Steve Calfee

Oh my goodness, yes definitely... I love my job, love my work, the bosses are fantastic... I am living testimony that it's possible. Don't know how common this is though.

I work crazy long hours because the work is so much fun, and because I care about getting a bunch of things done even when there isn't enough time in the workday.

Yep, call me in love.

Oh, this actually works great at AWS, yeah! We've been sending transactional e-mails from our servers at Amazon for a couple of years. They do require you to request the e-mail ports be unblocked, but once we made the request it was approved within 24 hours. As a bonus, the same request form also has a space where you tell them what you want your reverse DNS to be. Very handy.

Last year Microsoft also announced Azure support for reverse DNS entries. So I would anticipate Google getting on this "bandwagon" fairly soon too. Just my guess though!

> Add to that the possibility that one's account will be closed for no reason and without recourse, and you have the most unstable platform for apps imaginable.

We use AWS heavily and I considered the very same possibility. My solution: redundant cloud providers! We now have servers on standby at another vendor (Joyent), with live database replication to the standby servers. Something happens to Amazon, we'll be okay.

Oh wow... I didn't know Google lacks the ability for customers to specify reverse DNS. I had assumed any full-service cloud provider would offer this feature.

If Google doesn't have configurable RDNS, they're not a "one-stop shop" for all hosting needs. For example, a customer wouldn't send transactional e-mails from a server at Google because the lack of RDNS would affect deliverability.

Wouldn't the office inevitably start smelling like that familiar "dog smell"? Maybe that's okay with them... but personally I'm not sure I'd want that aroma wafting all around my workplace.

Friend, I humbly submit that XP was their best.

I noticed this same phenomenon with all three of the auto-syncing cloud storage services I tested: Apple's iCloud, Google Drive, and Microsoft's SkyDrive.

During testing, all three of those services incorrectly deleted files when the cloud service got confused about synchronization. So for the particular application I had in mind, I wasn't able to use any of them and had to write scripts to handle the synchronization myself.

Just out of curiosity, did you call Comcast to ask them about the problem? I would think you'd want to see if they could repair something to get the speed up to 150 Mbps.

YES, yes a thousand times yes! I read stuff on here to try to keep up-to-date on new things... but frequently it doesn't work because I can't even understand the vocabulary.

Then I'll even try to look up the meaning of an unfamiliar term, but the definition itself uses 5 other terms that I also don't know. So I'll go look up those 5 terms, but by then I'm three levels deep and sure as hell not any closer to the original topic I was trying to learn about.

Yeah man, HN has taught me that I'm straight-up useless! Shew...

At first I thought I was a great dev because my boss routinely praises me as an unqualified genius and savior of the company! And this is like 2 to 3 times a week.

But then I jump on HN and read all the "Signs you're a bad developer" articles and discover that I'm actually a two-bit mediocre hack.

I dunno.

The documentary is really well-made, very interesting to watch.

http://www.pbs.org/tpt/slavery-by-another-name/watch/

What's the strategy for making sure the database is preserved in the event of a power failure? Would be interested in seeing references that document this issue.

I'm surprised the article didn't cover this question.

I've been full-stack since the 80's, baby! Most of the jobs I've held have been in small businesses where the IT staff is just a few people.

I'm very productive, but the trade-off I've made is to be the "jack of all trades, master of none". I do not constantly keep up with the latest tools 'n frameworks, preferring to mostly stick with just a few core tools I'm familiar with.

When I need to use a newer language or framework, there's usually not enough time to fully learn it so I'll pull some quick 'n dirty tips from Stack Overflow instead.

Of the 119,000 cool tools offered by Amazon Web Services, I probably use about 6 of them.

I have no idea what "subtype polymorphism" is. But FizzBuzz is child's play.

A few more years from now, people are going to ask about web pages from 2015: "why did everybody's blog have light grey text on a white background everywhere? They must have had excellent visual acuity back in 2015"

> phone maker advertising that their phone lasts 6 years without needing replacing

And you know what, phones actually do last 6 years without needing replacing. All they'd have to do is simply point that out. heh

Thanks: I too visited this comments page specifically looking for clarification! Yep, saved me some time and a little head-scratching since I couldn't glean the background info on Internet.org by reading this site.

* hackers' assets