This doesn't do anything to explain why it was out for so long. I guess I should expect this type of thing from GoDaddy though, they are mainly a consumer company.
I only use Twitter via the Mac app and their iOS apps. Use of the web interface is painful and sluggish compared to the native apps. With them killing off the Mac app, I don't think I'll be using Twitter any more, except in the bathroom or in line when I'm bored (on my phone/iPad). It's even more bothersome that there isn't a clear reason for this.
This looks cool and very well put together. It's obvious you've paid lots of attention to detail. At our company, and I suspect many others, there is lots of collaboration between the design side and the implementation of the design (these roles are exclusive). For our purposes, we don't really need pixel-perfect designs, as we just like to get a rough idea implemented, then iterate on it. How do you use this tool in your workflow? Also, how do you use the CSS feature? I would never copy/paste generated CSS into code, but I guess it gives you something to start with?
FYI, I had a big array of green disks that ended up going out with ZFS, luckily not all at once. I read online that Seagate said they were not designed for use in RAID so they didn't cover it under warranty. You should replace those two disks with the Seagate Black series.
It would be more of a deterrent if they would have only allowed writing the sitecode via the programmer, and only then if it was blank. So basically, the locks ship with blank sitecodes, the programmer can set them once (other code on the lock would handle writing the sitecode to nvram, inaccessible to the programmer's read "command"). After that the only way to change the code is to reset the nvram. This way the sitecode wouldn't be readable from the programmer, and a malicious programmer couldn't set a sitecode that they provided. The requirement of resetting nvram would be enough to mitigate most attacks, especially if you could only make it accessible from the other side of the lock.
It seems like they could spread a bunch of smaller instances over an array of SSDs, maybe just offer less space at a higher price? SSDs are naturally better at concurrent access, so while you might not get 150k+ IOPS, you could get at least 10k or so, with the expected low random access times. Imagine an SSD-backed EBS.
Hopefully we will start to see some other providers offer SSD-backed storage since Amazon does it now. It would be nice if they offered it on some smaller instances too though.
We did a similar campaign for our family business, with a much smaller budget (and area). We received a lot of likes, I think we spent $50 total and got about 150 new likes. The value for us was not click-throughs to our online store, but the ability to directly communicate with our customers. We run special Facebook specials, and let people know when we get new products they might be interested in. If we have something we really want people to see, we can run a sponsored story. We've had a few people come in looking for deals we've posted on Facebook, so we know at least some people see them. I'm not sure if it has paid for itself as far as pure revenues are concerned, but I think keeping customers informed and aware of your existence is a little undervalued currently.
The actual quote:
"This is incorrect. Increase in diabetes and obesity correlate not just with sugar but with all carbohydrates. Fructose is metabolized through pathways that are most similar to the way glucose is processed, notwithstanding the important differences. Alcohol is metabolized by a completely different pathway. At high levels, alcohol is metabolized through a different pathway, the cytochrome P450 -- in other words, detoxification. Whereas part 1 emphasized how fructose does not turn to glycogen, I am flattered the Lustig has learned that it does in fact lead to glycogen, sometimes preferentially. The presentation is terrific (I wish I could speak as well) but the content is the kind of thing that makes professors shake their head at lunch over how screwy student presentations are. The very detrimental effects of fructose occur at high levels of total carbohydrate intake and whereas it is good to point out that low fat has been bad advice, the label from the low-fat food was on screen long enough to see that flour was the second ingredient. Frequently, it is the first. Reducing carbohydrate is the best strategy for improving diabetes and obesity -- you can do it by emphasizing sugar but if you keep those healthy high starch fibers high, you will still have a problem. Lustig is nice guy and we try hard to avoid personal things, but the CONTENT of this talk is dishonest, biased, inaccurate and, again has the danger that it will continue to encourage high consumption of starch with or without grains. On the other hand, I have elsewhere suggested that it would be great to hear some sugar-eater jokes, like drunk jokes. Two sugar-eaters go into a Dunkin' Donuts...."
I've seen "Fat Head," but I found it focused too much on bashing "Supersize Me" rather than explaining/advocating the right thing to do, and why. One book I've read recently that talks a lot about this is "Why We Get Fat" which is a sort of abridged version of "Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health" both by Taubes. Definitely check them out if you're interested. I've applied the reasoning in these books personally with great success, so there's my anecdotal evidence :)
Also, could you tone down the site theme? The scrolling sidebar/topbar etc is really buggy and keeps getting in the way of your text. I'd suggest just using jekyll or something with Github pages or maybe just run your own HTTP server to serve it up.
I picked up an Apple TV for Airplay use with my iPad, but was disappointed that I couldn't play my movies on my media server. Luckily I found out XBMC runs on it, and it works quite well. I've been using the Eden beta on my ATV for a month or two now, good to see it's been released.
The problem here is not that most men are attracted to good looking women. The problem is that they made it a marketing point, which is blatant objectification. "Booth babes" aren't even advertised like this.
Hmm, controls seem a bit odd to me. Instead of the standard arrow keys or WASD, it looks like they are using the right side of the keyboard for some reason.
It still auto-adds the attr_accessible list which is nearly as bad as allowing mass assignment in the first place. At most it should add an informative comment, and the error message about being unable to mass assign attributes should be made better, possibly with a URL to the existing mass assignment Rails guide.
For some reason I doubt that this runs all the way down to the UNIX level of things. It's probably just the restriction to only run signed .app bundles, and maybe signed installer packages. I guess we'll have to wait and see.
The case was pretty thick, maybe not 1/4in but about 2-3mm. A lot of the weight came from the power supplies though, it had 3 48V monstrosities that put out a total of 1900W IIRC. Plus there were disk carriages, a squirrel cage cooling fan, and about what seemed like 100 boards that connected to a common "backplane" for IO and power. It added up to be pretty heavy.
There aren't many computer museums around Alabama, and it was cost prohibitive to ship it anywhere as it weighed close to 2000 lbs. Anyways, I was able to find a buyer at $700, and the guy even came and picked it up :)
I bought one of NASA MSFC's old "mainframes" a few years ago, just for fun. It was huge and I didn't have three phase power so I was never able to turn it on, but it was cool to take it apart and examine all of the cards that they were using, and see all of the engineering and design of a million dollar computer. It was an SGI Challenge 10000XL "Rackmount" that was fully loaded, I paid $25 for it. It was utterly huge, it was the size of a refrigerator and the weight of a small car.
I don't want to pay for a commercial product that doesn't integrate well with the OS, and that is configured by a GUI. I want ZFS to be integrated into the OS, bootable with encryption, like we were supposed to see in Snow Leopard.
This is probably a little bit late for this release, but have you ever considered allowing arrays or strings with spaces on the value side of the events hash? This would allow you to define different functions to call in order when an event is fired, instead of just a single function that has to call them itself. I've run into a few situations where this would be useful, and seems like a very small change. Should I send a pull request?