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It's an open offer. Do they support python? edit: they do, but it's not clear how to easily deploy a multi-zone application. Could you point me towards some docs?

Dear Heroku -- I know it's my job to make sure my site is available (/thread). However, I think I speak for most enterprise customers when I say I will throw money at your company the second you come up with a multi-zone/highly-available.

Dear Heroku -- I know it's my job to make sure my site is available (/thread). However, I think I speak for most enterprise customers when I say I will throw money at your company the second you come up with a multi-zone/highly-available offering.

IaaS != PaaS

When will heroku have a multizone offering?

I know most sites hosted on heroku are pet projects with no real need that type of uptime, but this type of downtime makes it impossible to use them as enterprise customers.

Usually the masculine form is used as a gender-neutral pronoun. While correct, with no contextual need to deviate from the norm, I find the title unnecessarily distracting. But not as distracting as mismatching number and writing "their time" instead.

That.

I lived one of the below mentioned expensive cities.

Very good post. I am a dual citizen of the United States and Italy, and though I grew up in America and consider myself culturally more American than Italian, I lived, studied and worked (as a developer) in Italy.

It's difficult to describe the situation to an outsider, but I found Italy a beautiful place to live but a frustrating and difficult place to work.

1) Italian bureaucracy is maddening. Simple things that take five minutes in America, like getting residency in a state or setting up a bank account can take days if not weeks or months.

2) Taxes and rent are absurdly high compared to wages. I had a great job--and compared to my Italian born peers it really was--that earned 2,600Euro a month. My one bedroom apartment cost 1,400 Euro + 400 euro for utilities and taxes (and utilities is where you get taxed into oblivion).

3) Nepotism and "serving your own." True to what the article mentions, to get my job I had to go through 4-5 rounds of interviews. When I was chosen over the two other Italian candidates, they were blown away. How could they chose this foreigner over them? It didn't matter I was a better programmer, or an Italian citizen, or that I spoke Italian. I was American and they were Italian -- how could the employer possibly chosen me?

4) A cultural tolerance for being corrupt or sly and getting away with it. I'm generalizing some here, but I feel this to be true for the most part.

And, to those who speak Italian (sorry could not find the clip with subtitles), this is a wonderful scene related: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8TZNxWixN8

I'll try to come. Always fun. Great, friendly group. Don't be scared to come :)

God damn. The site really is fast. Well done.

Hi Anthony, Go here: http://friendcameo.com/ Now go here: https://plus.google.com/

... friend cameo facebook video chat girl = google plus video chat girl?

This. 100x this. Not only only does it personally rub me the wrong way, but also it is confusing to people who don't have Starbucks in their country.

Venti means 20. Grande means big. Short means...what the hell? What am I buying here?

Gorgeous as it is -- I just can't use something that utterly breaks IE7,8. I wish the realities of browser support were different.

Nice contribution in any case.

<insert lisp joke here>

Guido punctuates with more emoticons than a 14 year old girl. :)

I sympathize. But could you please explain how that email was "auto-generated"? I'm trying to give you the benefit of the doubt, I love what dropbox does, I understand the need to protect yourself from people looking to abuse the service, but... come on... was it really autogenerated? I think that is the part that has everyone scratching their heads.

Wait... what? How is that any better?

If you get the chance, read Orwell's "Politics and the English Language."

    Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
    Never us a long word where a short one will do.
    If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.
    Never use the passive where you can use the active.
    Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.
    Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous. 

http://www.resort.com/~prime8/Orwell/patee.html

Emily, Scott and I will be attending. Look forward to seeing everyone else.

Could someone please explain when and why someone would use this? (The description on the site leaves me wanting). Also, the site style leaves my head hurting.

Lot's of fun. I will try to be there.

If you choose not to fund us, not that I'm a pessimist, will you provide any feedback?