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Thanks, just figured out how huge this event actually is.

Any chance that VPC will support broadcast? The FAQ page is quite dry on details.

A re:Invent banner was all over AWS sites for half a year now, I can't believe that this is it.

I was expecting Jeff standing up in a suit and talking to a live audience. Instead, there is what appears to be a pre-recorded video stream of advertisements on how AWS is great:

>Think you're a good architect? These 12 tips will help you get around our global, fast and secure AWS infrastructure.

Thanks, but I've heard stories about the german Hetzner hosting lots of suspicious stuff and not caring. Especially in minds of russians and other eastern-europeans, Germany has been considered a safe harbor for grey and outright illegal stuff. That was during the 2000s as far as I know.

Is there an up to date german side to this story?

I do crawling from EC2, and yes, I would not like a 1Gbps traffic spike myself.

Do you deal with generic webpage crawlers that way, or targeted API abuse? Because the first ones can be smoothly shaved away with the help of Cloudflare, for instance.

This is great news.

Does anybody know if there are significant differences between Ireland and Germany, concerning things like privacy and copyright protection? Perhaps there are same laws in EU, which are just enforced less in one country?

Well, this is cool, but Safari allows for loading basically any file located on the filesystem. For instance, trying file:///etc/passwd results in file found but can not be opened by Safari.

That could be an attack vector.

Ugh, I'm confused by those area conversions. Edited to 1.33 km^2. I believe it sounds right and puts scale into perspective.

Can capacitive touchscreens be perhaps useful, with their much larger surface areas?

For perspective, in mid-2013, the combined screen area of just all the iPhones ever manufactured, was around 1.33 square km (214.39 square feet). Source: http://www.wired.com/2013/06/iphone-screens/

This made me wonder: has there ever been a death threat, that has actually been carried out later by the same person or group?

Why would anyone announce a premeditated murder before it really happens?

I guess there are already worms around, exploiting this bug.

Thus, has somebody thought of exploiting and patching the attackers in response?

Talking about extras on Windows, I warmly remember this one, a song by Weezer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kemivUKb4f4 This video was included on a WIN95 CD with my first computer, along with Hover and a game-like video editor, it's name I cannot recall.

Sure! I am probably biased, but I have been following Artemy and his studio from the early 2000s. He publishes semi-random notes on design, some of them influenced by realities of a post-Soviet state. Here is a link to the book: http://www.artlebedev.com/mandership/

A fine example of design for the sake of design.

Is that an amateur proposal, or was this accepted by USPS, polished further and paid for? Based on the amount of text fillings, looks like the latter is true. In any way, what I see is highly impractical, and the brand book is far from complete. Here are some things I dislike about it:

-All caps. This is wrong, and it should be fairly obvious even to a child, when pointed out. Millions of people will see media based on it, and a generation will grow up, struggling to read all-caps price lists, all-caps footnotes and navigating all-caps menus on their smartphones. What's worse, is that they will subconsciously accept it as part of their lives and surroundings.

-Too much visual clutter: completely unjustified use of borders, underlines and dotted lines – also in between semantically same elements.

-What does "→" mean?

-Clickable elements are indistinguishable from statics on self-service terminals and smartphone apps. Footnotes are impractically small even for a HD screen.

Overall impression: somebody, truly oblivious of basic usability principles, thought that infographics (the Daily-Mail-grade ones) and UITableViews are cool, and built a company identity around them. And the other guys sold it.

I remember reading a story in the recent Priceonomics book about a similar tenant conflict in SF. Tl;dr, a 75-yr-old lady was thrown out into the cold, but only after months of hearings and lots of money wasted on lawyers. Why do such laws exist at all in CA? Why not just send out several warnings in advance, explaining whole situation and the available options for tenant?

These two guys are just asking for a good old ass whooping. Throw them out, then let them try and prove that they were renting the place to begin with. Whatever the premises, you could certainly make it be your words against theirs.

Thought I could contribute my 5c here. I have been working in retail for around 4 years now, and dealt with PoS systems extensively: searched for the right software (protip: there is none), developed a master DB for synchronizing the product catalog across several locations, gathered reports and maintained the infrastructure. After all, I find the lack of good PoS software frustrating (at least here in Norway). The more or less affordable solutions are decades old, running VB macros on top of MS Access databases, they are often incompatible with versions of Windows above XP. Everything seems stitched together over the course of many years by various WYSIWYG Studio dilettantes. Extending such software with new functionality is often hard or even impossible, which their developers admitted on several occasions. For instance, I've once got an estimate of $5000 for integrating an old DIGI scale, with a condition that I'd manage to find a datasheet for that protocol. I ended up writing a small COM port emulator and used it as a proxy between PoS and the real port.

Fun thing about PoS is the huge assortment of various hardware, and all of it could be abstracted in business logic. Almost every country has it's own ways of collecting taxes, own currency, own central company registers and different ways of reporting -- all of it should be considered when designing, a dream of every architecture astronaut. In addition come these necessary things like stock control, handheld scanners, BI, printing, Unicode (never seen it supported by any PoS; imagine running an international foods store with ISO Latin-1) and last, but not the least, user-friendliness.

I guess the PoS software market is much larger in the States, but what about the average software quality? PoS systems are not going anywhere soon, and I feel that a startup dealing with these issues could definitely see success. If anyone else feels like doing it, I'd be more than glad to contribute.

Just bought this GTD app for both iOS and Mac, and here are some random thoughts:

It wouldn't import existing accounts from Keychain. Well, okay.

The app does not sync settings between iOS and Mac, and it appears that it is using IMAP folders for sorting e-mails. I guess that's what IMAP folders are intended for.

It would be really nice if one could create rules for sorting incoming messages. For instance, move all e-mails from "%@hidemyass.com" to folder "Proxies".

Rich text editor for composing e-mails is primitive. No indents, TAB key does not work as expected, no blue colored quote blocks.

Can't find a plaintext composing mode.

Multiple file attachments in a chain of e-mails - they all bunch up in the bottom.

Whenever I send an e-mail, I would like to set a date, by which I anticipate a response. Guess that is a reasonably obvious function which should be implemented. Perhaps I missed it.

Say, I have installed the app, but I don't want to deal with garbage older than a week. Whenever I clean up new e-mails, it loads more messages: weeks or months old. I have e-mails all the way back to year 2002 in there.

When I set "Remind me" date on iOS, it shows a segmented UIPickerView. A full-sized calendar would be much more practical.

The iOS client has just stumbled upon a certain chain of 6 e-mails, and it keeps crashing.

Is it possible to temporary quit & disable the default Mail app on iOS? Because both my Mac, iPhone and iPad are trying to open >15 connections to my $2 paid Gmail business mailbox, and all of the devices fail randomly and spam error messages. This has been most frustrating with the default Mail app, not to mention this paid alternative.

They've sent their Yacht Club newsletter invitation to an address which I've added first – it was a shared corporate box.

Searching for e-mails is done on servers at the same time: extremely slow and frustrating. Now I can only use Mail Pilot alongside Mail.app, which lets Spotlight index the attachments.

Just noticed that they're building Mail Pilot v2.

Overall, it would be nicer to have Mail Pilot as an extension to Mail.app, but instead it tries to replace it. Guys, you can store my passwords and index my inbox if you need to – just make the experience seamless, so I don't even have to think about it.

I wonder what is the site's infrastructure_cost/ad_revenue ratio, because I have long had a feeling that it could be greatly improved. Moot has always been skeptical about innovating the board, even the iOS layout is still incomprehensible since the CSS shim has been added.

Imageboard is dead easy in it's essence, so why not rebuild it from scratch, instead of feeding new bells and whistles to the existing spaghetti monster?

Longyearbyen, Norway.

They even have high-speed optic fiber on the island. And here is a nice property for sale, should be great for a small team of 2-4: http://www.finn.no/finn/realestate/homes/object?finnkode=448... Plane tickets to the mainland are dirt cheap.

Anyway, that is my dream – to get a comfortable, cozy place far away from the continent. Whatever happens out in the world, will likely not distract me from work.

Edit: >They have a team of 12

Well then, one could always buy land and build on it. Also on Svalbard, taxes are pretty low.

Just downloaded the demo version and got this: http://cl.ly/image/161S1B0d1j3E Also, the App Store is still selling Sketch 2, nor is there anything about v3 on their website.

How do I get the new version and the list of improvements?

This is fun, indeed.

Has anyone already made a patch for this bug, where the lib returns random data instead of actual heap chunks?

Found this among the returned data: http://cl.ly/image/2o391V1T2R46 Who would request that much lorem ipsum nonsense and for what purpose?

Indeed, the storage and retrieval of similar images is the hardest part. I do not know of a single networked open-source storage solution for this. I really wish that there was a project with a mindset of Redis, but for MVP trees. By the way, may it be possible to implement MVP data structure in Redis, as the project is now? I can not think of possible replication issues with this, apart from the fact that one would have to pre-define a metric space for every tree.

It could be a great extension to Redis DSL.

Here is a short tutorial on these: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYrDeC2Hb2I

Looks like a boot camp for bots, which will be sold for retweets or as followers. After the customer pays for N retweets, the bots usually get slaughtered by Twitter team.

Oh thank you, not even sure how I missed it.

Talking about automating apt-get, yum and the like, is there a way to cache frequently downloaded packages on developer machine in the same local network?

For instance, I have a bunch of disposable VMs, and I don't want them to download the same gigabytes every time I run init-deploy-test.

Do I have to jailbreak it in order to drive faster than limit?

But really, this is great if true, because current car OSes and interfaces are horrible, as they have always been deliberately made so.

Take the Antarctic Circumpolar Current or the Gulf Stream: looks like the wind defines ocean currents.

180662 - I am still using mine.