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Interesting. Admittedly I hadn't paid a lot of attention other than "get the latest release and install it", so I wasn't aware that they did any of those things. Thanks for clarifying.

It seems odd that they would remove all of the binaries as well. Want to commit a readonly version? Fine. But what about now, when less technical folks might want to install TrueCrypt on a new computer?

The point is, now another entity will need to establish validity as being a trusted provider; there was no reason to rock the boat per se, and as someone who laughs at most things, it just... really isn't altogether funny, unfortunately.

edit: assuming that it turned out to be a joke, for the sake of discussion (though is there a difference at this point?)

What makes this different than something like Flowdock, for example?

I'm confused about why this feature continues to ship enabled by default. AFAICT the de facto standard is to have users opt-in to menu bar icons unless the app is only a helper or intended to be used solely from the menu bar - at the very least, remembering whether it was enabled/disabled in flags between builds/updates would be acceptable, IMO.

I moved on to an "individual contributor" role with a company that provides higher level career opportunities that don't involve having direct reports.

Well, that sounds pretty slick. How's it working out? As someone who was just approached by management about a director position, and this being somewhat familiar ground, I'm concerned about the lack of expansion and technical progression as well. Haven't really seen many "no direct reports" situations in my neck of the woods, unfortunately... but it seems like that could be something to aspire for.

Agreed, that does make more sense. As TheCraiggers said, CYA seems to be more likely the more that I think about it.

I mean, if you're streaming BluRay 24/7, I'd imagine that's one thing - but for a normal person with a few hours of personal streaming bandwidth consumption per day, I'd hope they wouldn't even bat an eye.

The difference between running a service locally and in the cloud has pretty distinct implications in either scenario, not the least of which is overall cost. AFAICT, OVH is certainly well in the minority in terms of offering significant storage at a reasonable price. "Unlimited" storage hosts, like Bluehost for example, require that your storage use be part of the "normal operation of your website" (which I assume they mean "public use"), etc.

Fair points. Now that you mention it, the CYA rationale makes a bit more sense. And yup - it's like you said, it's almost impossible to not be contributing to other Internet users in some regard most of the time, with peering really being the LCD of those situations. Hell, being the host in a Halo matchmaking game would be enough for them to nuke your service, by contract logic. Also, good idea on the tweet/etc - even a simpler option would be doing something like a text file on S3 that just flags it as on/off, and let the script poll that every so often. I think I'll do that.

Aside, but as an unreasonably paranoid person, I appreciate the candor WRT "screw it, I do it anyway" - this (personal media hosting/availability) specifically has been a pain point for a while, and with a decent pipe to the house and plenty of storage, it'd be a shame to let it all go to waste. ;)

This looks neat.

The common hangup I have with these sorts of things though, is what's the most reasonable way to host the data? IANAL, but AFAICT I'm prohibited from running something like this from my residence because my ISP (Verizon) says I can't run servers or dedicated services from my home connection. So OK, I'll go ahead and run it on a DO or EC2 or Linode instance - well, provided I feel like massively overproisioning and thus paying inordinately for ample storage (what if I have terabytes of media?), or dealing with slow connections mounting/proxying to S3 (for example). On top of that, for anyone who has media they did not acquire legally, they are now breaking (more?) laws, hosting agreements, etc.

Just curious to see how anyone else manages it - because LAN XBMC/UMS/PS3 etc is always great, but if I want something more available, like this, or a private Roku channel, etc, it seems less of a real option the more that I consider it.

Docker runs fine with multiple processes in a container.

I think that, while most people realize this, it's important to highlight this fact again. Generally, the examples you see are "look, we can run this would-be-backgrounded-elsewhere daemon in the foreground in its own container!", when IMO this sets the bar a bit low for how people initially approach Docker. Containers have simplified my life significantly, and (again, IMO) their real power becomes evident when you treat them as logical units vs individual components.

Note that this was posted in late Oct 2013, whereas according to the HHVM blog[1] there were major stability, unit test, and performance improvements made to HHVM for a variety of frameworks (including Symfony) in mid December, thus this may be slightly out of date.

[1] http://www.hhvm.com/blog/2813/we-are-the-98-5-and-the-16

Absolutely. Years back, my wife bought me an AppleTV as a gift from Amazon, but had it shipped to an old address in the Bronx - whose current tenants happily signed for and took the package. When we realized it was delivered and signed for, we called them with the situation, and with literally zero hassle, sent us a new one to a new address, free of charge. I don't expect that this is common, and I would never expect them to do it for me again, but it won my customer loyalty more than any other company has thus far.

You have to boot into your recovery partition (Cmd+R on boot), then there's a menu option to set the firmware password, which will be active on the next reboot.