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Another point - people in prison still deserve "human rights", even though they've lost their right to freedom. This implies that even freedom isn't a human right. Of course, you could argue that this leads to a contradiction about taking away one's freedom, but that's another discussion.

As someone who was once banned from the Internet by the US gov't[1], I actually agree with you. People throw around terms like "human right" without knowing what it means. If access to the Internet is a human right, that means every human in the world should be able to demand access to the Internet?

I think the Internet absolutely should receive First Amendment protection in the US (and the US Supreme Court agrees), but calling it a human right doesn't seem to agree with the definition[2]. I'd love to hear arguments for the other side.

Note that this doesn't mean I think governments should be able to actively deny individuals access to the Internet, but a Constitutional right is not the same as a human right.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Lamprecht

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights

AWS should call them Unavailability Zones.

At my previous company (where I stayed for 7 years), I remember seeing our CTO doing the dishes in the kitchen/break room once. This wasn't just in the first year, but about 5 years in. It didn't surprise me, it was more of a confirmation of what I already knew about him. The company is pretty successful today.

Will this integrate with schools' registration systems (add class, drop class, is-class-full, etc?). When I was in school I made some decent college cash with something I built called "Classgrabber" that registered for hard-to-get classes automatically. I had to write a registration "bot" that acted like the web browser. With an API, it would have been much easier, and more open to innovation. The school's response? They outlawed Classgrabber, but it didn't stop people from using it (after all, they needed to get their classes).

Assuming they hold options or shares, it's not likely to be "for free". (edit: I meant to reply to the parent comment)

I like the Lost reference - hugo@reyes.com

I didn't - the author's name is on the page though. I use it so often, I almost keep it in a dedicated browser tab.

Here ya go, dynamic too (jeffbarr, take note) - http://mikekhristo.com/ec2-ondemand-vs-reserved-instance-sav...

I just wish Amazon and Rackspace would lower the price of RAM on their cloud servers

I wish the MPAA would engage in a discussion here. Who knows what might come out of it.

They should have read about the Internet Worm of 1988 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm

Those who don't know history are bound to repeat it?

ACCESS GRANTED, story of my life ;)

They probably found that it increased sales by 0.7%.

Does this compete with things like RedisTogo? (I understand it's just a key/value store and Redis provides a lot more, but many people use Redis for just that)

I think the most important part of this post is "Well, fuck that."

Update: Actually it's this part: "Well, double fuck that."

As is often the case with these awards, the only winner is the site running the contest. Other players in the game have incentive to send traffic to the site running the contest, who gets more traffic. Meanwhile, the sites being voted on spend lots of time trying to win, and in turn asking their users to spend their time voting.

Patio11's article "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names"

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-b...

In other news, employee with last name NaN gets a huge paycheck due to software glitch...

I use it all the time. I've found that clicking on the previous messages in the conversation view is much slower (requires hitting their servers, which are usually slow). But clicking on the "..." must not require a server hit, because it's instant.

Thanks, changing the labels to text is a big help. I didn't even notice it there in General settings. It still doesn't change the tiny "..." link to a text label (the thing you click on in a message to show previous messages in the conversation). See my other comment here about Fitts' Law.

I totally agree with you. Another specific change that is hard to defend is the new "..." three dots to expand hidden parts of the conversation from previous messages. It used to be text that was clear and large enough to click on. Apparently the Gmail team hasn't learned about Fitts' Law, and the new target is pretty hard to hit with a mouse.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitts%27s_law

I see the risk. However, after 4 years at the company, I felt I should have been trusted. Here's the rest of this particular story:

A year later, I said screw it and worked on it anyway, for 2 weeks (manager was out of town). It was an internal tool. It became the most popular internal tool in the office (95% of people have it open in a browser tab all day). At one point, the founder checked it out and said "I love [name of tool]!". Vindication. I left the company after that, and they use the tool to this day.

One thing that I've found extremely demotivating is when a manager tells me what NOT to work on. I'd have a side project that I'd start on my own time, and I'd tell my manager "I've got this prototype of X working, and I'd like to spend more time on it / test it out." He'd say "I don't want you to spend any time on that". Instant loss of motivation. And this wasn't my first month on the job, it was after maybe 3-4 years on the job, already having proved myself, etc.

Every manager should also watch Office Space :)

You're right - I'd say the phone improved by life by more than $599. I was coming from a typical crappy phone with a joke of a web browser. The iPhone is the first phone I really used to access the web.

I had my doubts too, until the minute I used one at the Apple store. I walked out with it, $599 poorer.

This would be stored in a numeric value. IndexTank (and Searchify which runs IndexTank) stores numeric values in a normal array in RAM. So an update is essentially equivalent to:

array[index] = updatedValue;

And then you can sort or filter by these numeric values, as well as the usual text searching. More info in the docs here: http://www.searchify.com/documentation/python-client#documen...

Note that if you update a text field, it does a normal reindex (although it's true real-time in IndexTank).

Hope you'll excuse the shameless plug, but check out Searchify's hosted search. It covers the requirements you mention - easy-to-use, fast faceting. http://www.searchify.com/documentation/tutorial-faceting

Thanks, but don't pity us! I knew about amazon cloud search before I decided to start working on Searchify. I said it before and I'll say it again - any worthwhile space will have competitors. And I think today has already set the record for new signups on Searchify.

And "near-real-time" amazon, is that all you got? :)