nanodeath

As far as I can tell, there's two differences. 1) a Promise typically has a "public" API and a "private" API -- the private API has read/write access and the public API has only read access. This way you can return the public API object to consumers of a method/library without worrying about them mutating the promise. 2) Promises tend to be more...composable? Java's "CompletableFuture" API fails on the #1 point I made above, but otherwise has a whole slew of then* methods that aren't on Java's Future. Then again, that might just be because Java's Future is mind-numbingly simplistic.

I agree that this is common knowledge, but it's good to see it studied. My friends and I use the word `hangry` in these situations: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Hangry

WellnessFX looks interesting. What are some of the other competitors in this space; do you know offhand?

This amused me:

"That is to say, use data-mining techniques to not rummage through everything."

Data mining basically /is/ rummaging through everything.

OrientDB also has multi-document transactions, I believe.

"The 1.5 release includes support for relaxed durability (off by default, of course)."

Zing ;)

I'm not sure I agree. Every email I've sent from a site like this actually does get a reply a few days later.

Two firsts here that I can see: physical goods and relatively high reward tiers.

I've found that the biggest problems have actually been in the emergency dispatch stuff. For one, police, ambulances, and fire trucks /get stuck in traffic/. Hugely obnoxious and unrealistic (at least, when there are open lanes on the other side of the road). The other problem is when if you have multiple events in the city at a time, e.g. two fires. Usually all or most of your fire trucks will go to the first building (and get stuck on each other in the process) and ignore the second one until its burned down. It's like there's nothing actually coordinating the vehicles and it's purely first-inferno-first-serve.

Hmm, works for me (Chrome 24.0.1312.57 m Win 7).

Good point. I guess I've grown accustomed to random things on the page stealing scrolling functionality (e.g. Flash/plugins, which I've disabled now) so I usually don't try to scroll unless the mouse is on the background somewhere.

Really? That's what Google Maps and Bing Maps does...

As someone who knows little about Protocol Buffers, my first question was how does this compare to Protocol Buffers...which they say blogging about is "on their todo list".

The protocol comes from Pantor Engineering, which apparently provides an "advanced trading system" out of Stockholm. Neat.

That site was always reporting it as up, for me -- I think it was just pinging http://bankofamerica.com/, which seemed to work; but then immediately redirecting to https, which didn't.

And...it looks like it's back up.

I've been living in Seattle for over 8 years now without a car, public transit is good enough for me...

I think the main problem they point out is if I get x gigs of space for 2 years, for which I pay monthly, and then switch to Android after 6 months, Apple still gets paid 30% for each the remaining 18 months. Which sort of makes sense, and sort of doesn't...

Yeah, I have the HTTPS Everywhere Chrome extension, which (almost) always works but breaks here. Made it look like the status page was down.

I think because this was part of a product recall. Apple says "hey, we screwed up, we need to replace your hard drive", so you'd think they'd provide the new one and do the back up themselves, instead of "we screwed up, you should drop $100 to fix the situation we put you in".

Where's the best place to learn more about this?

BTW, Microsoft did back down from that policy (not allowing games like Skyrim and its ilk): http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2012/10/microsoft-to-allow-mat...

A byline would be helpful, here...

"Trolling" actually is mostly valid here, by definition (can mean "to search for something"), but I agree this was really confusing at first.

I'm not sure if this is a worthy distinction, but I think you're conflating a visual designer with a UX designer. Ideally one individual would be both, but I imagine those are harder to come by.

Works well for me (Win7, Chrome 20), but it's not quite sized right -- scrollbars! Slightly jarring because navigation sometimes scrolls the content.

If any Dwolla folks are looking, this page seems to have massive character encoding problems when viewed with the Android Browser (Android 2.3). It's...rather interesting.

I'd like to respond to some things a number of people have commented on HN here...

1) Wordpress might seem like just a blogging engine, but this is not how the WP developers see it -- on the Wordpress .org About page, it's described as "[Wordpress] has evolved to be used as full content management system" (sic). So they expect people to use it as a CMS. 2) Plone, unless you have a lot of technical chops, is a nightmare to use and maintain. My SO had one set up for her non-profit less than a year ago and they've had so many problems with memory, weird WYSIWIG bugs/behavior (stripping all sorts of tags, including nobr, for one), confusing configuration, costly and/or poor quality plugins, frequent need to modify source, etc that they're looking to move off it ASAP. So I wouldn't recommend it if you're setting up an instance for non-technical folk.