This is a worker system that uses queues, not a queue unto itself.
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The trick is that Google doesn’t claim that Android is a Java platform, although it can run some programs written with the Java language and against some derived version of the Java class library. Sun could prevent this if they had a patent on the standard class library, but they don’t and, even if they did, I strongly doubt it would be enforceable since Android doesn’t claim to be compatible (and in fact, could very well claim that their subset/superset is an innovation on the existing patent and challenge Sun’s position).
As you’re no doubt aware, Posterous has had a rocky six days.
On Wednesday and Friday, our servers were hit by massive Denial of Service (DoS) attacks. We responded quickly and got back online within an hour, but it didn’t matter; the site went down and our users couldn’t post.
On Friday night, our team worked around the clock to move to new data centers, better capable of handling the onslaught. It wasn’t easy. Throughout the weekend we were fixing issues, optimizing the site, some things going smoothly, others less so.
Just at the moments we thought the worst was behind us, we’d run up against another challenge. It tested not only our technical abilities, but our stamina, patience, and we lost more than a few hairs in the process.
I’m happy to report Posterous is at 100% and better than ever. Switching to a new data center will help us avoid the type of attacks we saw last week, and the new, bigger, beefier servers will speed up the site and increase capacity. We were hit pretty hard, but we’ve come out stronger in the end.
While we were certainly frustrated, we know that no one was more frustrated than you. Your website was down, and I humbly apologize for that. Know that throughout these six days, restoring your site and your trust has been our number one priority.
At the same time, I have never been prouder of the Posterous team. Garry led the team in the server migration, Vince worked like a mad man until he passed out on his desk, and Jackson helped the community understand the impacts of some pretty technical issues. This week has been all hands on deck, and we had some pretty great hands.
We have great plans for the future of Posterous. Our team is stronger than ever, and we are laser focused on developing better ways for you to share your content online. Thank you for believing in us, thank you for trusting us, and thank you for sticking with us through the past six days.
--Sachin Agarwal Cofounder and CEO, Posterous
Future versions of this product will be able to take advantage of Android applications. At this time w/ the ifirmware version at launch, the first Pandigital Novel eReaders are not designed to support additional Android applications.
[1]: http://github.com/antirez/redis/blob/v2.0.0-rc2/Changelog [2]: http://github.com/antirez/redis/commits/2.0.0/
The VoltDB software is being published as open source software under the Gnu Public License V3. In other words, as Early Release program members, you now have access to the source files for VoltDB and the development tools for browsing the source code and the current issues lists.
Please note, however, that the Beta agreement is still in effect until VoltDB is officially available. So we ask that you not redistribute the source or binaries beyond your own use at this time.
Is this legally enforceable?
"facebook is carving out entire chunks from InnoDB to scale up concurrency: no deadlock detection, no read-ahead.." http://twitter.com/igrigorik/status/12117662626
"myisam has single mutex, will fall down after 3+ cores try to access it concurrently. stick with innnodb" http://twitter.com/igrigorik/status/12116958816
Being side-tracked for a few minutes, like making the comment above and this one now, is not a big deal. The point of the article is about getting side-tracked for hours, especially with something so dangerously addictive as technology.
Stepping back and taking stock of your activities is always a good idea.
As a developer I find it odd that I only like creating software, not using it.
Seriously though, the iPad isn't made for the likes of us on Hacker News (though I still kinda want one). It's for people like my father who don't really give a damn what a computer is as long as it's easy to use.