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Seems a bit hypocritical, considering they were using app install interstitial pages as recently as July:

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/google-...

The X360 controller is/was the gold standard, the XBONE controller has more mixed reviews. I personally prefer Sony's DS4 to the XBONE controller (for next-gen controllers). But I still keep an X360 controller around.

Rachel talked about Github and public keys a while ago (saw on HN): https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2013/04/07/ssh/

"NSX is getting strong traction"

With fewer than 500 paying customers, I don't see how you can describe NSX as having "strong traction".

The recent removal of the system tray icon is anti-user. It provided users with easy access to Play/Pause from the system tray, but that meant users spent less time in the app, so the system tray icon was removed completely.

(disclaimer, former NetApp and Nimble VAR)

NetApp is beat regularly for being too slow to new markets. Compellent was beating them in deals every day with Automated Storage Tiering (AST) and NetApp didn't respond (Compellent was acquired by Dell). If SSDs hadn't come along, Compellent would still be eating their lunch.

Then Nimble started beating them in deals every day with cheap SSD. NetApp only offered big monolithic PCI-E flash cards with a huge markup / licensing cost, while Nimble let you leverage "cheap" SSDs in a direct and scalable way. Nimble would give you a SAN with SSDs for $20k, where NetApp couldn't include their PAM flash card in any array under $40-50k. $20k of disk and SSD beats $20k of just disk most places. The new tech (SSDs) took NetApp several years to leverage. Even though NetApp's tooling, software, and capabilities were light years ahead, people could "make do" with Nimble and cheap SSDs. NetApp has only recently added reasonably priced SSDs to the mix.

NetApp regularly billed itself to partners as a "software company" who differentiated itself with software. They still have some of the most robust software in the business for encryption, replication, compliance, and orchestration. Their suite blows Nimble out of the water. But more and more, people are OK with running cheap, dumb, fast SANs and leveraging software on the other side (Windows, OpenStack, VMware) to handle storage intelligence.

As a hardware company, they're too slow and charging huge margins for consumer-available parts won't work forever. As a software company, their rivals in the non-storage world are quickly preparing to make them obsolete with server-side storage intelligence. Tough place to be, outside of enterprises who need your software stack (custom replication / cloning, retention, etc).

Yeah, my sentiment on this acquisition is "one company I like/use buying another company I like/use, I hope it goes well".

I switched to Authy when Google Auth 'forgot' all my tokens in one of its updates (which ended up being restored later), and Authy has worked flawlessly since then.

I wrote for WoW Insider for several years, and still keep in touch with the writers there. I would recommend following Alex and Adam on Twitter for more information on what (might) be coming after the official closure next week.

There are some great hyper-local sites. There was one I loved in Santa Barbara (http://www.edhat.com) that focused on hyper-local news. They would track police scanners, daily papers, hold events/contests (name that place!), talk about history, etc.

No, I haven't seen any vomiting. I was worried about that since I was breaking up the pill (and it smells awful) but my vet said it was fine since it is supposed to be chewable. I always serve it right after a full meal (usually the morning).

Trifexis is awesome and what I use for my active dog (and we have never had flea problems). The problem is that the pill smells very, very strongly of mold. I have to smash up the pill and mix it into peanut butter for my dog to even look at it. I also administer it outside and use gloves, because it will have your house smelling of mold for days. With a smaller dog (thus smaller dose/pill), you could force it down, but a 30+ lb dog will have too big of a pill and won't eat it normally for any reason.

The way that I've tried to explain/understand the Monty Hall problem is to expand it to 100 doors.

You're allowed to pick 1 door out of 100. Your chance of being correct is 1%. Then, the host gives you the option of swapping to the entire other set of 99 doors. Of course, your chance of hitting the car would be 99%, so you swap.

Opening 98 doors with goats behind them is expected, and so just because the host chooses to open 98 goats in a row doesn't mean that the chance of the last 2 doors (your final door out of the 99, and your original 1 door) both have an equal chance. Your set of 99 doors was opened in a specific order and that's what actually matters. The 99th door still has a 99% chance to contain the car, because your set had a 99% chance to contain the car. The order is everything!

There was also some work by Bungie earlier this year to keep Halo PC (11 years old) online after GameSpy shut down.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-05-12-bungie-to-updat...

(disclaimer: I work for Bungie, but not on that project)

With StartSSL, you can actually generate your own key via OpenSSL (and you should) and then use that instead of doing it in the browser.

I use a similar style of writing, including slashed 7s. I wish I could find a nice monospaced font with slashed 7s and 0s, etc.

It is relatively easy to trace who injected new BGP routes though, versus a DDoS from a botnet of machines that are difficult to link to an individual.

It did mention the difference between full/empty bladders:

>So if every passenger remembered to go to the bathroom before boarding, shedding an average of 0.2 liters of urine, the airline would save $2.66 in fuel on this flight alone.

Here's the link you actually want: http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/1199460/responsive-doc...

This is actually a pretty cool way to do annotated sources. While the explanatory page is a bit eccentric, it looks like some fun tech.

I tried your same sample image. The top came out much better than the bottom:

YOU SAID WE WERE LEAVING'ON TIME:TODAY

TN[ FACTTNAT |'M MAWING TNIS M[M[ INST[AD of DRIVING D[TERMIN[D TN#rWASA ll[

I imagine that the thick outline of the font makes it hard to detect the edge of the letters, especially since it obscures the true "background".

e: using the Internet Meme language worked much better!

YOU SAID WE WERE LEAVING'ON TIME:TODAY

(:/J

THE FACT THAT I'M MAKING THIS MEME INSTEAD OF DRIVING DETERMINED THAT WAS A LIE

I was the only person picking for Team Twitter (team size: 5) for a while, so I was able to pick strategically while Github was often split among 2-3 choices (team size: 20).

Why do I pay Linode $20/month instead of paying DO $5/month(1)?

Because Linode treats their servers like kittens (upgrades, addons/options, support), and DO treats their servers like cattle. There's nothing wrong with the cattle model of managing servers. But I'm not using Chef or Puppet, I just have one server that I use to put stuff up on the internet and host a few services. And Linode treats that one solitary server better than any other VPS host in the world.

(1) I do have one DO box as a simple secondary DNS server, for provider redundancy

>They might just keep quiet and pretend there was no security breach, instead of doing the proper thing and renewing the certificate. If you know they paid upfront, you can be more sure that they will take advantage of the free renew upon a security breach.

This is the point that I'm not so sure about. I know there are plenty of people running SSL certs (from any company) that have no idea what Heartbleed is, let alone what 'certificate revocation' means or why they'd ever do it.

If it was a StartSSL security leak, then I would expect them to give away revocations for free. But if YOU, the customer, leaked your own private key by running some bad software? That's simply not their fault, nor their problem.

I like that they configured the 'cap' to be the normal monthly price. It's a smart move that ensures that hourly customers AND monthly customers are getting treated fairly.

Especially in rural areas, where I would say 9 out of 10 people leave their shoes on inside the house.

The MariaDB page has great instructions for various distros:

https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/repositories/#mirror=o...

Just pick your distro and you're good to go. I didn't have to run anything else.

You can literally just type 'apt-get install mariadb-server' into Ubuntu (once you've added the sources) and you won't even know MySQL is gone. You can even still type 'mysql -p' to log in to MariaDB locally.

Good, I am glad that some of my taxpayer dollars went to something that is changing the world.

I have been playing Threes for quite some time, so it came as a surprise to me when several commenters on HN assumed that 2048 was the original and Threes was the derivative.