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Unfortunately network reliability is also an issue in the SF zone. Apparently they replaced some routers 2 weeks ago, but that hasn't solved the issues entirely. Over the past 2 weeks I've had easily over 30 minutes of downtime. During this downtime no pings / web requests can connect, nor can any SSH connections, so I'm fairly confident it's a loss of connectivity on their end.

Regardless, I'm still happy with the service and the pricing, and will continue to use them in the hopes of the network issues improving.

My one gripe with DigitalOcean is that their customer support leaves a great deal to be desired. For days I've been unable to replicate images across regions (any droplet I try to create gets in a permanent stuck state and can't be killed). I filed a service ticket days ago and was told I'd receive a response shortly but have still heard nothing. I've even sent replies pleading for some recognition that my issue is being worked on, but have received no response and no indication that they are working on my ticket. This does not bode well considering that creating a droplet from an existing image is a major feature of their product, and is not properly working.

While I have liked DO when it works and their prices are great, it comes at a cost. In my case that cost is their product not properly functioning and their team seemingly having no intention of fixing my issue.

Quora, you fucked up.

Hopefully this shuts up people always complaining about EBS...

Well, shit.

What makes you think this will ruin them?

Yeah I could never really tell how that even made it to the App Store. Some stupid wrapper around the web page, but the Chrome app is definitely more along the lines of what I'd expect from Google.

It looks better and feels snappier, so these tests are surprising...

I used to really like Coding Horror, but everything Atwood writes now days he sounds like a damn broken record. And his twitter feed is nothing short of immature and childish.

Disgraceful. How does the TSA constantly get away with shit like this?

Can we change the title to something more serious to reflect how truly groundbreaking this research could be?

Plain text? Are you KIDDING me?!

Integrity > money

Really...?

Awesome post. The system really held up too, the liveblog was a pleasure to follow.

Always assume Murphy's law will hold, regardless of what service provider you use.

If you were running your own database, you surely would have had rigorous backups because the responsibility was on you.

Assume that if a service can fail, it will. If data can be lost, it will be. Then, plan accordingly.

EDIT: grammar

Incredible.

This is not checkers; this is mutherfuckin’ chess... technology moves, the competition moves, the market moves, the people move

Couldn't have summed it all up more perfectly

This is why Amazon is blowing the rest of the market out of the water. Every week I get an email about some new feature or a bunch of features, and it's not just some small change like "oh, we changed our UI." It's always some large significant change that makes AWS a better product.

I agree with the skeptics here. If it left a crater in the ground he wouldn't have his hand (scientists, feel free to chime in). I call BS.

I'm guessing my iPhone alarm will break again?

Honestly more sites should do something like this (maybe a little less prohibitive and a bit more informational). I think most users with old browsers are on them because they don't know about the faults of that browser or the alternatives. Making the alternatives so obvious may do some good, and shouldn't be too much of an inconvenience to the user.

I agree that PHP is good for starting learning web development and for small sample apps, but from experience I really think that large-scale PHP applications are not easy to manage. The codebase becomes disorganized very quickly, and tracking down a piece of code's "hierarchy" (what it inherits from, what methods it has available, etc.) can be a whole new kind of hell. IMO, of course.

They have a program called Explorers [1] that's been driving a lot of their internship success. It lets interns rotate through different departments, rather than focus on one area.

[1] http://careers.microsoft.com/careers/en/us/internships-explo...

I wonder how this codebase would rank in the GitHub emotions analysis [1]

[1]: http://geeksta.net/geeklog/exploring-expressions-emotions-gi...

Posting on places like HN isn't a bad idea either. I'm actually a CS student at CMU so I'm on the lookout for summer internships. Just reply if you'd like to get in touch

I think one thing that the article hints at is still relevant: "developers" nowadays throw around terms like "scalability" and other hype phrases and think that since they know the slightest thing about some new technology, they're a real developer. Sadly, this is incredibly naive. Any script kiddie / code monkey can some application in the latest over-hyped framework and say "HEY LOOK, IT CAN HAS NOSQL, IT CAN HAS SCALABILITY, IT DOES BIGGGGDATA", and write some inefficient code for this application. The truth is that many don't even understand basic data structures and how a computer processes information at a lower level. If you don't understand what something such as algorithmic complexity is, and can't look at your code from a more scientific and critical point of view, don't call yourself a freaking developer. Pick up a book and learn what REAL computer science is, not what the latest and greatest over-hyped framework is called.