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Thing is that these "vendors" don't have the same level of hardware bias that Android has. Unlike "something Nexus something", people can't (usually?) run a vanilla Android. PS: if…

Damn. Even ELB went dark. High availability through multi-AZ my ass.

http://xkcd.com/714/ - had to be done.

It looks like "security in deployment" (aka sane defaults) is a concept difficult to grasp for the CouchDB devs. I wouldn't expect this from a project that claims it is passed over…

The API token is still there, in the "plain": https://github.com/settings/admin Fetching it via XSS should be fairly trivial. Via a simple script in that page is straight forward. …

Does it use Smart HTTP Transport? http://progit.org/2010/03/04/smart-http.html

Windows 2000 was more or less a ME with NT kernel. It wasn't a consumer oriented OS. Same as NT 4.0 that it replaced. The application compatibility and the security was pretty suck…

> This creates bad habits, such as relying on auto-complete. Instead of being a direct actor, we become some sort of operator of a big machine that does the work for us. That's the…

tl;dr Lennart is an ass.

You still need to provide an access key id and secret access key with that session token as returned by Security Token Service. And properly sign every request with those credentia…

They add useless latency and another point of failure. And sometimes, the AWS APIs DO fail.

It looks like it doesn't like recursion.

The API doesn't bother me as much as the temporary authentication via STS. Temporary credentials for database access? Seriously? I am the only one who sees how ridiculous this is?

Well, since you're complaining, I added SimpleDB support to aws2js. It was like 12 lines of code actually, but since people don't ask ...

While we're at it, can the Adobe folks explain to the rest of the world when Flash is going to suck less? I mean really. Don't care about the on paper gibberish.

The Wikipedia's definition of "notable" is a heap of crap. Maybe somebody should donate Jimmy a dictionary, besides the cash he's looking for.

This is exactly what they said on their blog post: Long term archival data is different than everyday data. It's created in bulk, generally ignored for weeks or months with only sm…

Says right there on the front page: "Build by SpiderOak on the same proven backend storage network which powers hundreds of thousands of backups".

Zed has the balls to post stuff under his own name.

http://linux.die.net/man/2/fork - this explains better.

Spawning a new process is not the same thing as forking, but people often forget this bit. This post wasn't about forking.

PS: the number of update() calls isn't the issue. Increasing the ReadStream buffer from the default 40 KiB to 1 MiB makes it 0.2s slower although there are 25X less update() calls.…