jman1

Its a great little tool. I have been using it for a over a year now and it simplifies the dev environment issues by sandboxing it. In general, it allows you to isolate your development servers and other such programs and libraries in a sandbox. You can use the editors, browsers etc on your local machine however the servers and other heavy lifting can be done by the vm in the sandbox env. I think this is still bleeding edge stuff as I dont see very many developers using this. Would love to hear experiences of fellow hackers.

One question - I use vagrant with VirtualBox as the provider. Has any body used vagrant with the VMware provider. Wondering if one sees better performance on vmware than virtualbox. Specially when you are running everything (host and guest) on the same hdd.

Employers will always have the upper hand because in the western world discussing/knowing salaries of peers is considered taboo( I never understood this as somebody who comes from the east where asking friends and peers their salary is very normal). Level the playing field. Discuss your salary more openly and you will see things get fairer( if that's a word). Not all will make the same but you will get to what you deserve very quickly. It also helps by letting you get an idea of what you need to do to get to the next level. Would love to hear the communities thoughts on this somewhat contrarian view.

Do you see any performance issues. How long have you been using this setup ? Just wondering if the SSD's on the air can handle the extra I/O without shortening its life drastically.

Awesome links!

Good point. Your comment about being face in the crowd is similar to the gut feeling I had. I guess the question now becomes how does one really start a professional services business (read I'd like to have a business where I can help other businesses migrate to the cloud, which I think can be a viable service business)

What happens to my data on the website when I revoke my permissions from google/Facebook ?

Really !! AT&T will do that for free without giving me trouble ? If so that would be fantastic.

Any suggestions on how I can get a list of distinct email addresses from which I have received emails ? Kinda like a select distinct on db table ?

Why is this surprising?

I have the same question but seems like its free and anybody can go. Gary's blog does not post any restrictions either.

Nicely condensed

Agreed on the salivation and the opportunity in terms of a dream job. But to think that just because the data science team thinks more about social science than Facebook prOducts the corporation will change its tune and stop being creepy is naive or myopic at best.

What Facebook knows: too much. What it has: too much squared.

More and more os x and the Mac "platform" is moving towards a becoming a crystal prison. They are still the undisputed leader when it comes to quality hardware. But locking down the os and hardware is not going to he good in the long run. I knew this was. I in that's why I got the 17 inch mbp in feb. figured I can have it last for a few more years as can upgrade the ram an hdd to a ssd giving it more life. If the os becomes restrictive then I can always install Linux or windows on the quality hardware.

Well one argument against it is privacy. by companies zeroing in on the source of the information and coupled with critical mass consumers don't really have a choice unless being a total outcast. Between apple and Facebook they know a lot about you and your habits in return for giving you a place to upload pictures and throw cows at your friends. Besides the occaisonal desIre to voyeur.

From a business perspective the platform gives an opportunity to use InfOrmation creatively and develop products and sell them. I don't see how such a personal information based business model can sustain for two decades unless it's ok for us as a society to live as a statistic because of the sheer amont of data that has been created and analyzed on individuals and groups.

Thanks Man ! Will learn a few new commands as well.

I got a MBP 17 with 8GB Ram ..but I still dig the idea of a headless VM. Little surprised I never thought about it.

Initially writing Java, will be using a app server (tomcat or glassfish) along with a DB (either oracle or mysql). Looking to work with their enterprise technologies.