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I don't, and I also reserve the right to say that I don't like this aspect of their business model.

Nope, I don't use Ubuntu.

Honestly, the world doesn't owe Canonical a business model. They don't get to do whatever they like and not suffer criticism.

Whirr just uses the AWS APIs to provision a cluster for you, but then you're getting a cluster built on EC2 instances rather than EMR, so you don't pay that EMR overhead. You can choose spot or ondemand instances. If your spots get reaped, I think it would fail pretty similarly to an EMR cluster built on spots. I have no idea how quickly it could provision a 500 node cluster, however.

One thing to note with EMR: you still pay 25% of the ondemand price as overhead to use EMR. If you're bringing up and turning off clusters all the time, it's probably worth it, but you might want to look into using Whirr instead.

Why run Rhino when you can run Nashorn and Node.jar? http://kaeff.net/posts/why-ruby-and-nodejs-folks-should-care...

It wasn't that bad. I stopped and started an instance. Done.

They generally send you an advance email. I just had to migrate our Jenkins server a week or two ago because of this. I received something like 15 days notice on that one.

But obviously if there's a hard failure, they aren't always going to be able to give you the amount of time you'd want. Generally speaking, you should have accounted for this situation ahead of time in your engineering plans. Amazon EC2 doesn't have anything like vmotion, it's just a bunch of KVM virts.

If you're using the GUI, the first time you try a shutdown, it will do a normal request, but then if you go back and try it again while the first request is still pending, you should see the option for doing a hard restart. Try that and give it some time. Sometimes it takes an hour or two to get through. Otherwise, Amazon's tech support can help you.

IDEA runs well in OpenJDK 7. Have you just given it a shot?

> But that's not anywhere close to good enough for concurrent, multiuser systems with reasonable traffic.

FTFY

While I can see the point of this article, it's being cast in a much more dramatic light than necessary. Phrases like "While Google is out to devalue the open source codebase as much as possible" seem hyperbolic to me.

Just ran into this link, which seems to describe how MVCC can sometimes not be enough.

http://ronaldbradford.com/blog/understanding-innodb-mvcc-200...

> database level lock

But that's not anywhere close to good enough.

> spoiler alert

You ruined the whole... story you were already telling!

I would say this is either driven by Gabe Newell or Linus Torvalds's middle finger.

dBase III is the program that taught me as a 10-year-old not to just flick the switch on my IBM XT like it was a light when it was no longer needed, but to save and exit gracefully first.

Catch 22 One Hundred Years of Solitude The Infinite Jest Cryptonomicon

We read "The Fountainhead," if that's anything. Doesn't mean the rest of what you said is wrong.

Just to play devil's advocate, did they spread FUD, or just say it didn't suit their purposes?

I think this is notable because Intel as a company is taking this stand against Canonical. Canonical in the long run is going to need support from the other two major graphics hardware vendors to make this work well. Having Intel already come out against it isn't a good start.

Just FYI, you mean 'immigration,' not 'emigration'.

Aren't those GET requests?

I thought it was "Bing it on".

I guess I didn't have my act together enough as a teenager to commit fraud over the Internet while I slept.

That's a good explanation of me.

I just took a quick look at the manual. The class definitions look seriously verbose. I guess with some coding templates or macros, it wouldn't be too bad, though.

I probably still have Friendster, Orkut, and Tribe.net accounts. A lot of attempts have been made at what Facebook finally became successful at.

"Looking further ahead, the GTK version of LXDE will be dropped and all efforts will be focused on the Qt port."

http://blog.lxde.org/?p=1046

The thing about the Galaxy Nexus is that it's essentially a Samsung Galaxy sII but with 2.4x more pixels to push with the same GPU.

There are some optimizations that iOS can make that Android can't, but the gnex in particular I think is slightly crippled.

Actually, I rather eat crickets than Red Lobster. That place scares me...

I think Google Music's Android app is preferable to Spotify's. Spotify was really bad with skipping/popping in the middle of tracks, even when they claimed to have fixed that. And I was experiencing problems with hard crashes and restarts of my phone while running it.