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Is this a reference to some earlier comment? Or just a general shout out to a hero of the programmer?

Great work nilium. I always wanna try one of these but I worry about battery life - how does everyone find these live wallpapers affect the performance of their batteries?

Is it a really tiny screen for anyone else? I'd love an option to increase size (in a fancy block-graphic style like minecraft)

What does AAR stand for? (Was half expecting RIP)

The screenshot trapped me into thinking it was an embedded demo - I tried clicking a few times! It'd be great if the link through to the github repo was front and centre too. Great work Matthew

I remember when this used to be a source of product leaks.

http://dcurt.is - FTFY

Given the known cultural emphasis on separation and redundancy at Amazon I'm interested to know what their tooling and source code control implementations are.

I'm interested to know if this activity will bring any viability or perhaps tempt Apple into allowing greater access to their lock screens?

Key detail here: "You will need to create an AWS account that is specific to the Region."

Be a completely isolated region by the sound. My question, will this open up that region to more external developers?

unfortunately the fear of a company knowing too much in order to "sell" you, I.e. the privacy debate that is so rightly ongoing would restrict or otherwise cloud ambitions in this arena I fear.

Is it too early to reference Skynet and Terminator?

I grow more weary of how many clones there are in this space, especially considering how easy (and within character) it would be for drop box to flick the switch themselves on this.

yet I yearn for increased innovation in this space. I'd love to see this turnkey style hosting support php, databases and more...

I've found that YouTube ramps up ad volume as you increase your viewing. I can do a short session of a video or two (5minutes) without any. But if I increase that to long form content or longer session then ads seem to get center stage.

Did anyone else find it really hard to read the text in this article? I don't like the contrast...

And here I sit, waiting for Google Music to be available outside of the United States.

I can't help but think that Vista -> Windows 7 is an example of this pattern.

What browser do you use?

It's cheaper to have 3 micro's than one small?

anonymous cell phone. cell phone bought without any identification used.

Another photosharing website with a focus on geo-location sharing of photos is called Snapr

Check it out here: http://sna.pr/

They've also got a developers section with a focus on creating your own sites using their infrastructure. http://developers.sna.pr/

(I'm not affiliated with sna.pr in anyway except for sitting next to one of the developers from time to time in a co-working space)

events / ticketing websites need this feature. I'm forever frustrated with events where allocated seating is the only method of ticket purchase and you're needing to organise and balance payments.

> My mom refers to the Internet as "Google".

that's how she browses the internet then? in her case the application wouldn't matter to greatly if her point of reference is the Google search box

Maybe they should use CloudFlare?

greater redundancy through autonomous systems?

I would love it if this option was offered by the providers such as Mailchimp and Campaign Monitor et all. They have the opportunity to improve their industry and in turn improve clients business.

The tracking is already happening. Put it to good use!

Thanks for responding Matthew, and I can imagine the sense of frustration you're all feeling.

My 2cents:

Any change should be considered dangerous, and be tested first, time weighted to it's level of change. (An internal policy that could be communicated publicly. One that I apply to all my staff)

It would be also good to have data center clusters (preferably a datacenter clusters are sharded among regions) which would allow these changes to happen as necessary. A random cluster being the "first cluster" with a roll back in place if fails, or proceed through to other clusters progressively until all are live.

The sharding should hopefully alleviate any corner of the world taking any massive hit due to degraded performance.

I'm not very educated on this end of the spectrum - but I wonder if a process is possible where a rule or router update of some description is applied to one router only, testing the specific schema before pushing to the rest of the routers, thereby failing one router and not failing the rest? I understand the need to respond as quickly as possible - but as stated in this case this was already a manual response.

It appeals to my limited knowledge and non-existant experience that this would be a solution to the prevention of this occurring again in the future?

Can someone enlighten me - there choice of x86 processor, does this mean it's a 32bit platform? not a 64 bit one? And if so, how does this affect them with the imminent change that's happening on desktop moving towards 64bit?

Does anyone know if Heroku does any of this sort of "here's what we learned" posts re: postgres?