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Hey Irem, I'm doing a presentation on how to make a "mesh network" for a group of primarily web developers. I do a bunch of js robotics so I'm leveraging talking over a serialport, and am doing an xbee proof of concept project. I'd love to know more about existing hardware and systems that I could tap. Would you mind talking to me for a few? (contact info on my profile)

heroku, pagodabox, dreamhost, s3, linode and digital ocean. Each host has their own pros and cons. (Dreamhost for example is slow but they manage everything.) I stay away from rackspace due to issues I've had with them but when they've worked they've worked well.

Dynadot because of security, reliability, price and features in that order. They have two factor auth too.

Because the "hackability" of the web is important. The ability to view source, play in the console, modify the dom, etc is amazing. Locking it down or providing a larger barrier to entry (eg, download this extra thing) provides dubious benefit and hides what makes the web great.

I speak from someone who teaches ruby and javascript. Javascript is in every browser and the console is a wonderful place to start. When I teach ruby (on Mac's) I have to start with, "well ok, now download xcode". It's really easy for someone to give up before getting everything working.

I feel like I should give another personal experience with them. I hope they sort it out with runspired.

I've had a bunch of really great dates through howaboutwe, I never had an issue with them and they've helped us work out scheduling issues with the restaurants and places we've gone. Even after they hiked their rates a little bit, I still found pretty good value out of their service. I work way to much and I would honestly struggle to make sure I got out enough (besides my local spots) if hadn't signed up.

I don't agree, you should just know what they are. Defaults are helpful.

This still requires a server for orchestration.

You can use an enigmapass or a few of the other browser extensions to avoid this. Also there are iphone and android apps.

I got 2 coins off a guy in a coffeshop about 1 year ago for $20. I sold them today for about $1600. About 2 years ago I almost dropped $1000 on bitcoins but was talked out of it by family and friends. It feels weird. I can't connect bitcoins to social or economic value. The "china explosion" of btc price won't last imho. And while I like bitcoin, it's just a currency and not an investment, as in it doesn't generate value itself. I have a hard time connecting stocks to social or economic values too. I'd like to think we can invest in actual businesses where it's a better connected to reality. I don't know how to do that however. Not yet anyway.

Honestly, I'd rather you browse my sites, I don't mind if you disable tracking. Supporting you screwing with my scripts is another matter, it's hard enough to build features, support all the browsers and platforms and realistically people like you are less than 1% of my traffic.

I use tracking to make better products and learn about my audience. Nothing about privacy gets in the way of that.

I'd really like to understand this more too. More info!

I would argue that you want to resolve conflicts in a rebase instead of a merge. This allows you to see where the branches diverge and fix it right away, closer to the offending commits, Preventing more work from piling up around the conflict making it harder to piece what's going on.

Public history and private history. Or maybe changes to production vs changes as you developed.

I care more about the merge then the commits. (In github parlance, the Pull Request) This workflow turns commits throughout time into a single change against the master (while still preserving the commit history). Conceptually this is a lot easier for me to see what's changing, and to deal with issues. So I guess I disagree with point #1)

In a continues delivery environment this workflow makes sense because the log accurately shows the history of the changes to the app in production instead of the development environments. (Merge, Merge, Merge)

#2 doesn't make sense to me, if you rebase you're up to date with master as of the branching commit.

Whatever works best for your team!

My team of 6 handles this just fine, we try not to have many people on the same branch, nor do we like to have branches that live very long. Merges of branches that are old tend to cause more problems. Problems that would have fallen out on the developer side if they had rebased.

Not a bad service, if you don't make your own this is a way to go. The fact is before I bring a service or app into my company this is one of the primary things I look for. If you can't communicate with me when things are broken then I can't rely on you.

http://biglumber.com/ is any oldy but a goodie. There's room for improvement in this area.

Stack Overflow and Server Fault are full of questions like this.

Why isn't there a link to play?

I'm really confused why chrome (and now IE9) doesn't support Theora/Vorbis when it's FREE and USEFUL for them to do so. I think I'm missing something.

I do know if you build your own Chromium you can use a non neutered library of ffmpeg and play every codec it supports instead of just mp4.

regardless of the rules there are a few tlds that route mail and resolve to websites. http://to./ comes to mind, but there are a few others.

Take that one step further and I might agree. People who have a high rank on "his website" might would make for good job candidates. Not all programmers may be good at communication or teaching, or any of the behaviors stack overflow, server fault promote. But I agree with the site's founders that they are positive skills to posses. It's not exactly hubris thinking that people active in a programming community might make for good job candidates.

I wonder how it compares with the two android phones sprint is coming out with. I've been out of contract a while and I won't move to AT&T do to service problems in nyc, but I'd really like a more powerful smartphone then my blackberry. I've got my iPod Touch for my iApps.

I've got about 2 businesses and outside and within them probably 4 "jobs". I always put the one that I put the most hours in.

Am I off basing asking for a fixed cut of every support incident? That's something I'd think of if I was providing their software as a service.

I was thinking about monthly share of profits vs annual bonus vs non voting shares for a cut of the sale of the company. I'm not sure what the long term benefits are in the different cases.

I guess what I'm looking for is some advice on how to partner with them for money. I'm not sure what's standard and what's rude. Or how a % of the company would get paid out. These aren't questions I want to ask them.

Couldn't the fbi just use their upstream provider?

How so? I didn't find anything referring to that on their site.

Whatever he used his boss still wouldn't have understood it. The problem he's having is balancing programming time, with IT time. Something I do very poorly myself, but it's not hopeless.

The funny thing is I've been interrupted 3 times while writing this comment, it's ruined my flow and I forget what I was going to write.

Oh yea, I lock myself in an office and close the door when it's time to work on spurts of programming, otherwise I feel burnt out and nothing gets done. I've also got a boss who's capable of doing IT work. Having two of us helps entirely, maybe a $25k a year intern to ease the "my caps lock is broken!" off your plate could help.

But seriously, take your 20% time and don't answer the phone and use it to program. You need your focus time, and then come back and do the rest of your job.

I don't care too much about outlook and I use it every day - I just rather plain text in email honestly, websites can stay html ;)

but that twitter wall looks amazing! Looks like he may have coded it up himself - I know some activist groups would love to have one of those!