stevefink

That's really interesting if it's true. I had never heard this before. Thanks for the tip.

Both my MySQL master (I'm not using RDS) and Redis Master servers are affected and are located in zone us-east-1a.

Cpu0 : 0.3%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 0.0%id, 99.7%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st <-- EBS subsystem is completely unreachable. I/O wait times are tanked across the board for me (I'm in US-EAST-1).

Are you sure? I have a graph of one of my Resque boxes taking 30Gbit/s of inbound traffic. Looks like a DDoS attack to me.

The showstopper for us when it came down to whether we will use VPC or not ended up being a no due to lack of support on elastic load balancing:

http://aws.amazon.com/vpc/faqs/#E13

I will certainly revisit this topic when ELB is inevitably available for VPC based customers.

Not really. Like MongoDB, the first four bytes of an ObjectId are a timestamp. That the timestamp is synced with other instances isn't paramount because the actual value of the timestamp does not matter. What does matter is that the timestamp is new and increasing every second. This is to retain sorting capabilities. With the 13 bits that represent the logical shard ID from this article, Instagram will guarantee uniqueness of an ID within the granularity of a second.

Would be incredible if a PyGame type community can be built, for the Rubyists out there, around this tool. Kudos to this initiative!

Like StackExchange, I think it would make sense to take this idea and bring a more abstract platform together. Niche communities (such as Ruby on Rails and Founders) can be created based on community involvement and volunteer willingness to help. A premium model can surely follow for certain communities.

I'm assuming they're getting overwhelmed with traffic after being linked here and other high traffic properties. With only two volunteers on staff, there's only so much you can do. I am sure they are rapidly going to look into adding volunteers if the volume stays persistent (and/or hopefully grows even larger).

The major distinction here is voice is much more personal and one on one than IRC. IRC can be intimidating for a novice, and let's be quite frank, many times people's IRC persona does not reflect who they are in real life. As someone who's been contributing to major networks such as EFnet for many years now - I've learned IRC can be a great tool for learning, but it can also be downright aggressive and humiliating, particularly to the majority of users who this service would be targeting.

A voice on the other hand is more personal, synchronous and on-demand. I think there's value there and that it's possible to charge for that additional value.

chap, as I've mentioned before, I think this is yet another great way to contribute to open source. It's not always about writing code - projects like this are just as valuable as someone who works full time on documenting open source projects, writes code or creating user interfaces. thanks for a fresh idea!

I don't know Fred personally, but from following him on Twitter to being an avid reader of his blog, he comes off far from grumpy. Fred's successful/unsuccessful investments aside - he's been nothing but a class act in all of his talks, tweets, blog postings etc. I think there is a lot to learn from him on a myriad of topics including technology, business, venture capital and more. Pardon my ignorance, but this article is absurd and AdWeek should be ashamed of themselves for posting it.

Going to trial it now and from the looks of it, I'll also probably be throwing cash at you very shortly. One pain point I find with Finder is that by default when you search, it doesn't search the local folder. Kills usability for me on multiple levels when I have to resort to Terminal.app + find(1).

You will be assigned a new number from AT&T. You will then point your ported (existing) number from Google Voice to the new number AT&T assigns you. Note, if you're currently in contract, you are subject to early termination fees. This is not any different than porting from AT&T to another carrier such as VZW in as far as they are concerned - even if you are simply getting a new number from the same carrier.

While the idea sounds fantastic - the one major hesitation I have is how difficult will it be to get customer support from Google? I've been waiting for this feature for quite sometime, but now I'm seriously reconsidering. Despite the gripes anyone might have with their existing wireless carrier's customer service.. you can get someone on the other end of phone 100% of the time to help you resolve problems. Let's face it, your mobile number these days is probably significantly more involved in your day to day life than your landline (if you even still have one of those). I think twice before placing my mobile number on any provider.

Kudos to any company working on information overflow. I promise to use your product religiously (and pay for it) if you can solve the problem.

I wonder how much of that traffic is from folks who ditched Digg?

Great idea - would just require some sort of moderation in that format though. I'd much rather manage my own list of domains to blacklist. A crowd sourced one I fear could be exploited and prevent me from seeing content I'd otherwise like to be able to find.

Not necessarily a resolution - but I've made myself a promise to watch at least one Khan video a day and work out the problems in the related categories. What an excellent refresher, particularly in mathematics.

I really wish this site was around when I was in high school and college. I'm glad it will be there for my children and I'm certain it will have even more great content than it already has now when they approach the subject matter on this site in their studies.

Haven't had a chance to read the article yet - but I already see where this is going. I essentially lost a chunk of my life from 21 to 23yo playing EverQuest with a guild that was rated one of the best to ever play the game. With that came the caveat of constantly being the first at conquering new expansions, leveling as fast as possible so you CAN conquer the new expansions, and end less other power play moves (questing for keys, blah blah).

Long story short - my life was rather pathetic during these times. I found myself so immersed in the MMORPG world that I'd pick raids and my friends in the game over family/friends for any circumstances. Birthday parties, engagement parties, night out with friends at the bars, hacking all night on something that can potentially change the lives of people one day -- all gone. Zero motivation, zero care in the world except to get that new robe for my necromancer.

I remember my friends would drive by the window and start screaming for me to come out with them for once. I would literally turn off the lights in my room so they couldn't tell if I was home or not. Sad.

We had raids that lasted from 6pm on a Friday night and wouldn't end until 12am on Saturday. Anyone remember Veeshan's Peak in Kunark for EQ? Not only was my social life directly impacted by way of never having a significant other, I wasn't picking up any new programming skills, my family was constantly on my case, and my close friends eventually just stopped calling, they gave up. What was more embarrassing is the once in a blue moon when I would show up some where, the comments were unbearable. "Oh look, Steve decided to join us instead of his MMORPG friends for a change."

I am not exactly sure where I am going with this - but one day when I woke up and saw five empty 2 liter bottles of coke with ten boxes of pizza collecting, lying next to my desk, I was disgusted with myself and my lifestyle. I was over weight. I probably didn't shower as much as I should have. I was disgusted with myself and my lifestyle. I was burning the most crucial years of my life away on something meaningless. These are the times to be learning and exercising your brain beyond its capabilities as learning only gets more difficult through out the ages. I bet most of you were writing bad ass code when you were 21,22,23 and learned a lot faster then than you do now if you're part of the older HN crew.

Given my competitive nature, I was never able to play an MMORPG casually. I had to be #1. Being #1 requires a lot of dedication (ie, time invested), and if you are not willing to put in the time, don't bother, you'll never be as good as the other guy or have the same inventory or capabilities as them. You'll be average at best. I have the sense that a large population of HN does not settle for average given the intelligence of the community.

Long story short, the only escape I had was to go cold turkey. Going cold turkey doesn't mean saying "Ok, I'm not going to login ever again" - that never works out. You always get sucked back in at some point. I had to go the drastic route. I had to sell all of my assets, which sold for $5,000 USD at the time. There was times when I was going through withdrawals and wanted to purchase my account back, but the original buyer refused. Thank god he did.

Saying that this was one of the smartest things I've ever done would be a huge understatement. I've achieved things I'm personally proud of since quitting playing any MMORPG including the following:

- I have a healthy balance of a social life and work life.

- I am respected among my peers for building new technologies/infrastructure out.

  - I got married to the love of my life and had a baby girl with her, which is now the most important person in my life.

  - I have worked at startups where I've learned priceless lessons.

  - I bought a house that I would never be able to afford if I stuck to MMORPGs as my skills were no where near as blossomed as they are now - I'm assuming I'd be working an entry level job somewhere filling in Excel spreadsheets if I kept it up. Even then, I'd be lucky.

I know it sounds crazy, but I've found teaching my mother to use VMWare had an easier learning curve than BootCamp.

As a developer who's deeply tied into web technologies, I cannot help but grin at this post. Unfortunately, I know where this is going to lead, however. My mother visits a site that embeds WMV-based videos for her Russian TV shows. It was not until she purchased a new MacBook that I realized that this was the site she visits 90% of the time she's on the Internet. I thought installing Flip4Mac would solve her crisis, and it partially did, video and audio came in through Firefox as expected. With that said, seeking within the video does not work as naturally well as it does in IE. In fact, it doesn't work at all. The end result was I purchased my mother VMWare Fusion 3, a copy of Windows XP, and ended up having to tutor her on the usage of a virtual machine, the mechanics between how to seamlessly work with the two operating systems, etc. I still get daily tech support calls that eat up a lot of my personal time, now not only for the MacBook, but for VMWare Fusion, Windows XP and IE/Safari usage.

The web developer in me loathes IE for obvious reasons which will not be reiterated here for the billionth time. The son in me kind of wishes my mother just had a simple netbook running windows xp, IE, and nothing else.

There's very few companies out there that can take a standard iPhone built application and have it replaced with something in the App Store. tap tap tap has built a product that has replaced the default Camera on my phone and my wife's.

Sometimes I still wish I was in college to figure out how this is on 50+ campuses, and today is the first day I'm hearing about the company. I'm married, and my college days are behind me, but I would have been all over this service in my younger days. I wonder if it'll go the Facebook route and eventually serve a more global market? Love the idea.

One awesome thing about this is a lot of the time when the web frontend to Gmail is down, POP3/IMAP remain accessible - so vmail would be a great drop in there. (As would a myriad of other MUAs). As a vim zealot myself, I salute you for this commendable idea.

It seems like 95% of the folks claiming to be "Entrepreneurial" are also sitting in a farm of cubicles somewhere. Just saying, it has a completely different meaning to the person who left everything they have and moved to somewhere like the bay area or NYC with a few thousand bucks to follow his or her dreams.

Ruby's alias_method(new_name, old_name) always gets me also because I'm so used to ln [-s] (src, tgt).

For Mac/iOS types, anything by Aaron Hillegass is an entertaining/insightful page turner.

It's a good effort - although I agree with a lot of the folks commenting here, I cannot recommend this to anyone without Git experience over GitX. The good news is, there is plenty of room for an intuitive GUI based Git app, particularly with GitHub integration. It's frustrating working with non-developer types who need access to static assets that need to be versioned. I need to get them an SVN equivalent such as Cornerstone or Versions. Teaching them the command line and Git is an all too time consuming process and I have no choice but to ensure they know at least the basics on smaller projects where non-developers are tightly coupled with things like HTML/images, etc.

Probably because most of the people working there would like to keep their jobs.