timboisvert

If you have a family or you have a chronic illness, working at a big company -- at least in the US -- generally means better health benefits. I'd wager that health insurance alone is the most compelling reason why many people choose big companies over startups.

Anyone have details on how exactly he did it, and how he got caught? I'm not a lottery player but I'm intrigued by the fact that one state had refused to pay him because they thought it was fraudulent. What was their cue?

Somali Shillings

That or it's Sunday...

A Haskell mention would've completed the HN trifecta.

The difference between the west and Japan in regard to change trays is that in the west (US, Canada, Europe, etc.) they're often available in a small subset of cash payment scenarios, but in Japan they're always available in every cash payment scenario. Not to mention that even when they are available in the west, they're rarely used, but in Japan they're always used. I've lived in the US, Spain, and Japan for considerable periods of time, and the level to which they're available and customarily used in Japan is what makes them such a noteworthy use case.

Any chance you'd consider open-sourcing the code, or at least the horizontal calendar portion? This would be incredibly useful in a number of applications.

Does anyone know of an open-source/forkable alternative that comes close to matching the functionality here? Not necessarily the searching piece, just the note management and content editing screens. I've seen a number of them fly by on HN over the past several months, but didn't capture any of the links.

I love this. We'll be in San Francisco this weekend and will definitely use it! I'd love to help you port this to work here in New York, too. Let me know.

So sad to hear this. Condolences to his family and to all my former colleagues at Red Hat. This is a huge loss for the open source community.

Regardless, civility and decorum should rule the day. Advisors and mentors are valuable for the introspection and internal analysis they induce. If you can find a way to encourage people to channel themselves in the right direction with tact and dignity, go for it. Otherwise it's probably best to just let people live their own lives, learn their own lessons, and earn their own success.

Nah, It's an OpsWorks bug. Back up and running now, though.

Gah. Thanks. I was checking the upper bounds but spaced the lower-bound 0 case. Fix is on its way up.

Done imgix.com have Vanilla Ice pics? If not, the answer is clear. :D

Done.

Today we launched Nice Nice JPG, a Vanilla Ice image placeholder service. I've been a dedicated Placekitten user for years but wanted an excuse to write my own, and I had that stack of Vanilla Ice pics filling my hard drive, so it seemed like a good choice. In the end, though, this really was/is an exercise to prove out the value of Amazon's new OpsWorks service in our development shop. Initial thoughts are VERY positive: it sits nicely between the type of experience you'd have on Heroku and the full hosted or EC2 experience. You get some control, but not too much. We'll be deploying our next major content platform on OpsWorks for sure.

So... check out NiceNiceJPG (http://nicenicejpg.com) and check out AWS OpsWorks (https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2013/02/18/announ...).