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Just so you know, thats not an absolute truth. I live in Texas and I've owned 3 cars, only one was one from the lot (a Ford Mustang), because they had the exact combo I wanted. My Jeep came from a dealer a few hours away that my dealer swapped for so that I wouldn't have to wait for a factory build. My current car was built to order by the factory. My wife's super picky and her last two cars where built to order.

The difference between dealers here and say.. in Germany (where most of my family still ives) are that the dealers in the US just have waaay more inventory on the lot, so you don't necessarily have to wait 3 months for a build.

Most of my physical book copies have come from http://subterraneanpress.com the last few years. Mostly because at this point when I want a physical copy of a book it tends to be a special edition/signed copy.

I'm guessing it was when I filed my taxes the following year since that included my updated address.

Meh, they started proceedings to deport me over a year after I got my citizenship. tl;dr I moved a few months after getting my citizenship and the INS didn't realize I had become a citizen and got irritated that I didn't notify them of the move.

The INS/DHS is hopeless.

I assume its for this reason (and others) that even Amazon.com still uses Akamai. Stuff like product images/banners still get served from domains like g-ecx.images-amazon.com (which resolve to Akamai)

I used to work in support at Rackspace and was fortunate enough to work on 2 presidential candidates and be the lead tech on another. I learned a ton.

The way they raise funds and advance through primaries made scaling out the infrastructure pretty interesting. It was basically, "If we make it through X with a big enough lead deploy gear by next Tuesday if not wait". Would have been a lot easier now that using "the cloud" is an option.

I'm not sure if it falls into your definition of bare metal but Rackspace has a managed colocation offering (its not a Bare Metal as a Services...service...although Rackspace has that as well).

(disclaimer - I work at Rackspace)

Hadn't heard of Titan before. tl;dr from: http://thinkaurelius.github.io/titan/

"Titan is a scalable graph database optimized for storing and querying graphs containing hundreds of billions of vertices and edges distributed across a multi-machine cluster. Titan is a transactional database that can support thousands of concurrent users executing complex graph traversals in real time."

Very cool, I just sat down yesterday to start hacking on a Go version of the same thing. (Go mostly just because I needed an excuse to use it and because I thought a single binary deploy option might be nice).

I'll definitely give this a shot instead!

At least on some Intel's the wear level indicator exposed via Smart seems like it actually does its job.

Theres a little bit of a annoyance/bug during the sign up process. I signed in with Google so you populated the email field for me (awesome) and the username field (also awesome). However, since you copied my email name for the username I have a "." in the username which the form didn't like when I actually went to submit.

You want a Labor and Employment lawyer - If you don't get any recommendations you can always start here - http://www.lawyers.com/labor-and-employment/raleigh/north-ca...

You could definitely be right. Whats the latency like for drone control? Is latency low enough that fast low altitude/tight terrain flight isn't a problem?

Guess you could always turn something like a AC-130 into a drone too.

I don't think CAS stuff is well suited for drones (at least not the current stuff). You want lots of ordnance and you want the forward observer on the ground to not have to talk to someone possibly 100's of miles away right?

Also, I don't know that I buy that the drone pilot has the same local/situational awareness that a pilot sitting in an A-10/Apache does.

I use a brand called Bulldog that uses ground up coconut shell's. It feels like it works better...maybe because its not made up of perfect little spheres of plastic?

Wonder what the cost is going to be when it goes live.

Running infrastructure in those DC's can't be cheap (compared to regular co-lo facilities). Thats on top of probably having to deploy more gear (or higher perf gear than a regular email provider) since the work load is probably CPU heavy.

Yeah color scheme threw me off at first. Thought it was outlook.com

The missing step in that post is: "Step 0: Write very popular and useful thing"

It doesn't really compare. It's:

"The easiest way to get a debian package out of any app"

Basically you push up to the service and it takes care of building a debian package for you and provides an apt repo to pull from.

Usually you end up having to do some permutation of https://wiki.debian.org/HowToPackageForDebian

The python driver is cool (and PyRethinkORM was super handy!), but setting up the driver to use the optimized protobuf backend was a PITA.

http://www.rethinkdb.com/docs/driver-performance/

Thanks for the feedback! Any other tips for transitioning from an in office gig to remote?

I'm considering getting a desk at my local coworking space to make sure I don't turn into a hermit and to stay in touch with the community in town.

Its not mentioned but ucarp is handy for those times when you want to float a vip between two boxes for a bit of redundancy but don't need something super intelligent (like where a bit of flapping is ok).

http://www.ucarp.org/

Just curious but, whats the reasoning behind not having a "Show Pending Comments" option along with the existing "Show Dead"?

Its all there - https://github.com/everpix/Everpix-Intelligence/tree/master/...

Its definitely true that we consumers are the ones getting shafted by this deal.

However, I'd rather they use this approach and temporarily drop limits than potentially let some consumers (who are more than likely unaware of what happened) possibly wake up XMas day to a drained checking account because they made the mistake of using a debit card.

Theres nothing quite as a bad as going to put gas in your tank only to find someone drained your account.

I think you may have missed this part: "Chase and other banks say they will cover unauthorized transactions that customers report."

For what its worth. I just upgraded from an old Delonghi and an Aeropress to a Crossland CC1 w/ a Vario grinder (a refurb from Baratza), love this setup so far. Having a good grinder definitely helps a lot at least as far as consistency goes.

I absolutely agree. I don't often drink, and even when I'm not actively drinking just hanging out and socializing is a huge component of what makes many conferences worth while.

So is http://koding.com a http://nitrous.io competitor? Can't really tell at the moment since all the main page says right now is:

A new way for developers to work. Software development has finally evolved. It's now social, in the browser and free.

And then throws an error about not being able to connect to the backend.

[edit] Hope it is since nitrous.io seems a bit expensive.

Even if it does sink quickly I still got quite a few inquiries when I put up a job a few months ago. I expect actual job seekers know the post is coming and look for it regardless of whether its on the first page or not.

[edit] Also for what its worth, the quality of the people that reached out via HackerNews was a lot better than I got else where (I even ran an add on reddit's /r/linux)