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Looks like they have a migration guide available here: https://expressjs.com/en/guide/migrating-5.html

Also noticed that the Status page linked from the logged out https://twitter.com page has been expired since Aug 29.

Not especially interesting, but probably an indication that some of the non-core stuff is getting overlooked.

Goodreads allows you to export your library via CSV.

Linode also charged you the $20 right up front and held on to it for the month.

Yeah, this is why spamming your general status page with lots of information is a bad idea. I have no idea what's going on there. At first glance it looks like half their services are having issues, which makes me think it always looks like that, which means it tells me nothing without digging into the detailed issues.

Linode opens a ticket for all affected users and emails them proactively, I think this is the right way to message this type of outage.

Hacked together a Vagrantfile if anyone wants to try it out:

https://github.com/silas/vagrant-lmctfy

This is super nice for anyone running RHEL/EL, lets you use recent versions of Python, Ruby, Perl, etc.. without having to package everything yourself.

Google Test Automation Conference talk on Appium if you're interested:

https://developers.google.com/google-test-automation-confere...

Gmail is written using the Closure library:

https://developers.google.com/closure/faq#gwt

Only one (wristband texture) and removing it still produces a pretty good result: http://codepen.io/anon/pen/LmEkn

I've had good experiences with Thinkpads, Ubuntu has their own list:

http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/desktop/

Every scribd link is marked as private for me Hacker News for some reason, is this broken for anyone else or..?

I created pretty much the same thing about two weeks ago, although I think your library looks much nicer (I'm just getting into Go).

https://github.com/silas/bcrypt.go

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2179492

Interesting bit from the linked comments via "egoodman85":

Hey, just want to clarify something as an Etsy employee. It's not your purchases that are public - it's your feedback on those purchases. I know it's a small distinction, but it's not like we have some sort of desire to publicize our members' purchases. Feedback is public by default just like it is on eBay - to increase accountability and transparency. It's also worth noting that feedback has been public since the site's launch (in fact, the option to make it private was only added recently). The new People Search feature does not change this at all.

$ curl -s http://bit.ly/test | grep AOLserver

<P ALIGN=RIGHT><SMALL><I>AOLserver/4.5.1 on http://127.0.0.1:7200</I></SMALL></P>;

1. Quit Dropbox

2. rm -fr ~/.dropbox-dist

3. Start Dropbox

Sweet, I'd take: nyc.ww.com => nyc.sewell.ch (CNAME)

CentOS, Fedora and RHEL use Python for most of the system tools and as such integrating or contribute to those projects will be easier if you know Python.

That said the recent/popular systems automation and conifguration tools (Puppet, Chef, etc..) are predominantly in Ruby, so that is a good choice as well.

I prefer Python, but as spooneybarger said, if you end up using the systems version of the interpreter with CentOS/RHEL you're going to need to learn the differences between versions. Luckly EL 6 is coming out soon and you'll get a fairly up-to-date version.

I wrote something similar a while back to offload parts of legacy sites on Google App engine.

http://github.com/silas/gaem

http://github.com/tidg/tyrion

A lightweight systems management tool that uses XMPP for transport and is written in C++.

I think in the immediate feature innovative mobile products could unseat a lot of the current platforms, many of which have been slow to (or done so poorly) implement mobile interfaces.

I think just like we've moved from desktop to web applications you're going to see a similar move from web to mobile interfaces. This is will be especially true of social networking platforms.

Google has direct control of one of the major upcoming mobile operating systems and because they host the contact/relationship graph I think they could make a confident push into Facebook's space if they were so inclined.

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#DoesTheGPLAllowNDA

Might be a fun project to implement the XMPP Microblogging XEP (http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0277.html) as a start. XMPP seems to have a lot of the basic features for a distributed social network (buddy list, pubsub, established protocol, etc...)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=937175

I'm using Dropbox because it supports Linux and has worked extremely well thus far.

I can't speak to ZumoDrive's performance or reliability (although I'm sure its fine), but it does look like they have more pricing options if you want a smaller or larger plan.

... for free.

fastcgi++: http://www.nongnu.org/fastcgipp/

Check out GlusterFS: http://www.gluster.org/