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You can write your own code to long poll in either and do work as it's needed, but with StepFunctions you can wrap lambdas to give a little more visibility and error handling.
The solution is to use AWS's Application Load Balancers instead, which will allow you dynamically allocate ports for your containers and route traffic into them as ECS Services.
Linux is the operating system of your server, you should know how to use it. Apache is your web server, you should know how to set it up and configure it. The same for your database MySQL. Obviously you had better know PHP(Python if that's what your P stands for) to develop any software.
I think you're mixing up Full Stack developer with Application developer. The application developer would take PHP and connect to a database to make the application and that's normally that. The full stack developer would set up the servers, configure them, create the application, deploy it, and all that jazz.
I'm not saying one is better than the other. You get more flexibility with a full stack developer but you can get more expertise with an application developer. It all boils down to the opportunity cost of having someone who can do everything well or 2-3 people should all be experts at their part of the puzzle.
Also, after my time at university I noticed that I didn't need to be a .NET or PHP developer. I was a well rounded computer scientist with the capacity to learn anything I set out to, which is the point of degree. I learned what I wanted in my free time, the technologies you use shouldn't define you.
[1] http://crossbridge1.blogspot.com/2011/09/does-education-pay-...
I almost did the same thing you did during the sale but one of my friends let me know about the plugins, which they could do a better job of talking about.
Can't go wrong with this great software either way though.
Use this to calculate your profit. http://www.bitcoinx.com/profit/
Disclaimer: I mined bitcoins at the start and cashed out during the last bubble at ~$30USD per coin. I sold the hardware I had (ATI 58xx series graphics card mining rigs). The new ASIC hardware looks too great if you could gt your hands on it.
Remember though that you are at a disadvantage to more established miners who can afford these $X0,000 mining rigs that increase the total pool speed which brings down your contributions and your profit.
He goes on to append strings to this variable which would lead me to believe it has some value that you can append to.
This would make the third conditional where he checks for null to fail, he should check for an empty string.
I know it seems nit-picky but as someone with an interest in chemistry and comp sci, and a degree in both, I can appreciate the curiosity that comes with science. It's what encouraged me to study the science.
Was it wrong that he was doing it in his apartment, putting all the other tenants at risk? Absolutely, but I don't think he should be put in jail, just reprimanded and told where to perform experiments in a safe environment. Who knows, maybe his experiment would have worked w/o all the cigarette smoke and ash.
The only reason I post this comment is because this guy is exhibiting the hacker spirit that we all do, just in a physical science instead of computer science. I would be upset if someone told me not to play with data structures they way they won't let him play with chemicals. (Again, I know its not the same thing in practice but it's the principle.)
I'm on a high end gaming PC with oodles of RAM / SSD / i7 on a 50 down 10 up connection so I don't think that watching a stream in 1080p would tax my computer too much.
I also don't think it was the NASL team's fault because the same thing happens on other streams periodically.
It seems to be a bandwidth issue from justin.tv to the end user but it could be anything, all I know is that it is quite annoying.
The next few days everything worked great again.
Apple was taking 30% of his profits before but has given him a way to make more money per user long term.
@nika, the reason you should not be ecstatic is because while apple did help connect your customers to your product they did nothing to ensure that people continue to use and pay for your product. You did all that work and you should feel entitled to your money.
I did research at GA Tech when I was working on my Chemistry degree and had a blast / learned quite a few interesting things.
I would like to do something similar for the CS degree I am also working on this summer, but it has been difficult to find a "list" of companies offering quality summer internships.
Could anyone offer any directions?
It's hard to think about a million different problems a day and how to solve them then just cut all that off at 10-11 or so each night.
It probably doesn't help that coding is my hobby as well as my profession, so it really doesn't ever get turned off.
When I implemented Open ID the last time I used their OpenID identifier and then had their e-mail tied to that account, you had to have an e-mail so if your OpenID didn't supply an e-mail then the web app asked for one. If you tried to log in with a different OpenID and used the same e-mail, it would tell you that you already have an account.
This doesn't solve the problem 100% but it helps, you just have to design your applications assuming that you wil be the smartest person to use your application.
Very nice site though, its good to see some quality stuff being made with CakePHP and the idea looks really catchy.