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What kind of schedule are you expecting to keep?

And what are you planning for communication while working through?

What provider would that be?

Your numbers are wrong, $0.14/GB is only for storage. The thing that will most likely bite you depending on what kind of site you are hosting is the $0.15/GB outbound transfers.

But yes it will still be cheap for most static sites like a jekyll blog or something, if you ever reach more than 130 GB of outbound transfer you have just reached the cost of an entry level linode with transfer of 200gb included.

It does but at the end he also talks about running 2 or 3 wordpress sites on such a box.

Depends on what kind of gaming you want to do, playing some passive wow (I hear raids take up a lot) would probably do ok, or most of the simpler games out there. But even something like hl2 will still have trouble with intel graphics, not really for gamers.

I believe pg sometimes deletes accounts if you email him.

A bunch of banks don't allow special characters, some people have said it is so you can enter it over the phone (something I've never come across but I kind of doubt that.

If that really is the case, they are probably throwing out whether each character is upper or lowercase as well :/

Only freebsd :/ disadvantage of not having extra money.

Localtunnel was mentioned there with quite a large discussion.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2468324

It appears some of them aren't kids, and from what we have seen computer crime is taken seriously when it is done against the government or popular things (Sarah Palin's email password reset and leak got the guy 1 year).

Normal site owners should always be afraid, there are far too many automated scanners not to be looking at your logs.

As for the nintendo hack it was stated as a warmup and what was posted was the apache conf, it was not lulzsec main target (at least it wasn't stated as one) nor was it necessary for all these news articles to come out about it. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if all these news articles prodded the right nerve for someone to hack nintendo to expose user data just because so many news stories came out that nintendo user data wasn't compromised.

It depends where you are, I know I have jaywalked next to cops without so much as a word from them, but this was on the street next to a college campus.

Brute force doesn't even work for a large amount of the problems, but sometimes finding ways to solve the problems without using brute force can teach you how to think like a programmer.

But you are right in thinking that the majority of the problems are better left solved by mathematical techniques beyond most of us without a degree in math and high knowledge in math.

Xen is used all over, AWS and a multitude of linux vps hosting are some of the major ones. I don't know how much kvm is used in comparison but I believe that Xen's paravirtualization offers some advantages over using kvm (someone with more knowledge could probably chime in for that).

I have a samsung qx410 and it is actually of pretty nice quality, and has a good keyboard my only complaint would be the touchpad but most of the time I have a mouse connected or am not using the mouse.

HP is absolutely the worst laptop brand I have ever owned, I've known plenty of people with HPs and almost every single laptop has overheated to the point of shutting down the computer and breaking within a year and a half.

Thinkpads have the added feature of being pretty compatible with linux, though I think some of the nvidia cards that come with the T series are not compatible yet.

On ubuntu it is under monitors (might be a gnome thing) and you just select right or left under rotation.

I'm sure kde has something similar, but one thing to be aware of is that some monitors are specifically designed to be viewed horizontally so fonts and other things may render weird when rotated.

If you are going to go fulltime dev for iOS might as well buy some kind of mac to run it on, perhaps see if it can be done on a mac mini or buy refurbished to save some money http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/specialdeals/mac?mco=M...

You say it is relatively inexpensive, so if you have that disposable money you won't have to worry about getting locked out later for some reason if hackintoshs are found and banned.

If you are doing it for fun though might as well try the hackintosh if you already have the hardware, though it isn't condoned by apple.

There are plenty of people who do this and I would much rather have the subject in the body as well, as my android client will put the subject at the top, a place I'm unlikely to look.

It probably stems from the fact that I visually filter by email address more than subject line.

Broken on vanilla Firefox 4.0.1 on ubuntu 11.04 as well

I drink coffee on weekends with breakfast, I only have 1 cup so it doesn't have as much effect as something like 3 or 4 cups would, but I must say I have had 3 cups and I get really shaky and overly inattentive.

I do drink black tea though during the week about 3 times a week around 5 o-clock and it usually offers a pretty big boost when I'm feeling tired. I mostly just like the taste though.

It has been that way for decades though, engineers are taught that if you come up against a similar problem that you have already solved for a previous company it is ethically wrong to give your solution to the new company.

I find it weird but it is understandable from a competition point of view. If it wasn't this way you would probably see a lot more eager competitive hiring for opposing companies in order to gain an edge.

See that really isn't the main use case for dropbox, dropbox is more like seemless backup and sync. You have a dropbox folder on your computer you work on stuff in, everything gets uploaded and revisioned while you are saving files and when you change computers everything is there.

You also get pretty good folder sharing with others and a web interface.

Personally though I've stopped paying for dropbox and might consider going back if they implement client side encryption for some users, but til then its waiting for a fast enough good enough replacement or for dropbox to implement it.

You can do that but these people that act like jerks or asshole really do alienate and demotivate others, so while you might be able to handle them if you have a group of people an asshole can really destroy productivity.

xvd* naming scheme is pretty standard for xen volumes (even for linux)

But I don't know any other things for AWS, forums will probably have the best knowledge base that is easily available.

Don't forget password resets, that is one feature that is truly needed to appeal to the masses.

Can anyone explain to me how the article or even title of the article would make someone think the FTC was doing something and then require such a statement from pg?

It is referenced in both as a complaint and is news for wired readers, not necessarily here (though the FTC complaint being filed here is new).

The only reason that machine runs Windows is because people think they want Windows, it is rather ingrained at this point in time.

I could see some people using this and being okay but I see tons of others wondering where their microsoft office is, and to be honest a boat load of other problems from the people who malware is already a problem. (I can even see people asking where the internet is or how to get to facebook or google while looking at a chrome browser window).

These chromebooks sadly will only satisfy a niche market and this market probably would be served just as well with a similarly specked netbook running linux

You just need a new breed of student, at my school almost all student presentations were done in google docs (the professors didn't mind, and wireless works well in the building). (This is pretty much limited to my class in the ME department though)

All collaborative lab reports and student assignments were done in google docs as well, everyone pretty much communicates through gmail if they aren't talking face to face as well.

It just depends on how people want to work, many students don't like having to spend all their time in the lab so they use Autodesk Inventor (free for students) over Pro/E Wildfire or Solidworks (in the computer lab). Students still do torrent the MS programs if they have to use them but when they don't they are fine with semi-equivalent free alternatives.