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I agree the foundation is critical. So would you say that the extensive community use of KVM on SmartOS has decided it is production quality compared to use on Linux?

FreeBSD has already had ZFS and DTrace for years. They have Jails which would have benefited from Solaris' stronger Zones/Containers.

There are already a lot of BSD users. Where are the Illumos users? Are you suggesting that all BSD users go to SmartOS? I used HP-UX and AIX for many years...the one off UNIX systems just end up recreating each other due to fragmentation. They are not the way forward. The smaller mind share/usage of OpenSolaris/Illumos isn't helping. Wouldn't contribution to a BSD have strengthened the community?

Can you provide more details of Crossbow? Who maintains it/status? I hadn't heard anything about it since OpenSolaris went dead.

Thanks. But didn't they also have a lot of FreeBSD such as during the TextDrive days?

I'm having a difficult time wrapping my head around this. If Joyent wanted to stick with a UNIX then why not FreeBSD and help implement KVM there? Wasn't XEN already available for Dom0? I just don't see much mindshare in Illumos/SmartOS for keeping up with current server hardware drivers. I really would have liked to see one of the existing BSDs benefit from the time they've put into this project.

Obviously Linux already has KVM, and there are new implmentations of DTrace and ZFS. Btrfs is not too many more kernel releases away from being considered stable(fsck being a glaring problem) and if you want container-based virtualization you've got LXC(some prefer OpenVZ).

With that said, who is their target audience?

Nice! I was going to suggest adding Lua and Tcl but they're available on the Embedded page. The link in the title goes to the Scripting page.

Thank you. So the Xen dom0s are using IP Routing and not bridging.

Do we know the details of Heroku's LXC configurations for dynos on their Amazon Domu instances?

http://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/dyno-isolation

"On the Heroku dyno manifold, each and every process has full isolation from all other processes, including those of the underlying operating system and other processes from the same application. This provides complete protection from either of the circumstances above, and many others."

Based on that, do we presume they are also using routes and not bridges?

Secure meaning there is a private back-end network or there is some form of tunneling/encryption end-points available and enabled by default for instances?

Here's the current AWS security guide that I was able to find:

http://awsmedia.s3.amazonaws.com/pdf/AWS_Security_Whitepaper...

If you travel in more than just...ahem...Indonesia(I'm presuming), you'll notice they are "everywhere" in multiple SE Asian countries. As Nokia reigned supreme from the 90's until just a few years ago, Blackberry has become the new dumb smartphone with their Edge(or equivalent) network support. It will be a long time before most of the world is on a 4G equivalent. RIM will do fine for quite some time.

For those who may have missed a great discussion on "lunch at the office" a few months ago from a Joel Spolsky blog post:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2494398 http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2011/04/28.html

Linode is pretty good about accurate updates for Requests For Outages(RFO): http://status.linode.com/

I don't keep track of the totals but I think it you search their forums, I seem to recall someone who had monitored them with Pingdom or Wormly(or equivalent) for a fair period of time.

Overall they have great service. Only their Fremont location has been a bit touchy this year. I've been with them since the days they used UML before Xen and if it's any consolation, I have experienced at least one downtime in each DC(but this was over the course of many years now). Unless you plan for distributed systems, expect some failures from time to time no matter who is the provider.

I'm guessing you haven't been affected by any of the Fremont(Hurricane Electric DC) outages? I have a lot of Linode boxes and love their service but I'm still splitting load with different providers as well.

Reddit is intermittent too.

This is a real gem. I've been thankful to have a great career in computers the last 20 years and everyday I'm reminded how little I actually know about our history. We really do stand on the shoulders(and success) of giants.

Just curious if there was a reason why this is not on the official Github blog?

I don't know what he meant by that either.

Is there any consensus on an improved/extended Markdown? Between MultiMarkdown, Github Flavored Markdown, Stack Exchange's additions, this new "elegant" markdown and others there seems to be bit of fragmentation in this idea of a simple markup.

Bust if you read the next section...

"Even if you do not proactively trigger prerendering yourself, it is still possible that another site will instruct Chrome to prerender your site. If your page is being prerendered, it may or may not ever be shown to the user (depending on if the user clicks the link)"

I posted similar concerns in a thread here yesterday which got little response.

The Instant Page feature sounds interesting. Has Google released any findings on bandwidth usage during typical browsing scenarios with this feature? How severe is this going to be for users with restrictive data plans?

I don't see an obvious way to turn this feature off. There is an option to uncheck "Predict network actions to improve page load performance" but this says it is only doing dns lookups and then navigating based on IP address.

I'm also curious how this will affect analytics. As a website owner, I now have to use their PageViews API to accurately track my hits from Google? Can websites opt-out of this service?

Any word on when Gevent will be compatible with Python 3?

Did you see this discussion a few months ago on an interesting idea for a modern GUI terminal? I don't know if there has been any further development but that definitely has thought provoking ideas.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2559734

I'm not sure how well "relegated" is going to go over here since Vim and Emacs are considered by many the best editors.

If you're on a Gnome-flavored Linux, then many "lesser" editors can use GVFS to remotely work on files.

I agree that it's a great looking looking site. But I don't see many detailed feaures. Can I ask you what you think makes this look to be an awesome editor? I am a Vim and Komodo user so I am admitedly hard to please but it seems the other new kid on the block, Sublime Text 2, offers more than Chocolat.

By "not-vim-but-vim-like" do you mean modal editors?

Did someone type in one of the karma brothers, tptacek or patio11? That might be what crashed the site.

I'd be interested to see the analysis it returns for a prolific poster.

That might be the funny part.

Too late for modern Perl or too late for something else?

Unbridled optimism and naiveté? I certainly have much less of it now that I'm in my late 30s.

I've often wondered this this isn't part of the "foundations" portion that is mentioned in the description of the YCombinator program. Not only a PR firm as you mentioned but a couple of training sessions in PR AND ethics before launch even happens. A core set of skills and knowledge is more than merely a founder and a great idea these days.

I count at least three YCombinator startups that have stumbled severely with PR not once but multiple times: Wakemate, Dropbox and AirBnB.