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Also worth mentioning, surf: http://surf.suckless.org/

It's amazing that people are surprised at all when a combination of proprietary media-playback system don't work as desired. No snark intended, I've just not ever had a good experi…

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Yeah, and I'd take $20k/yr + a winning Powerball ticket.

People are not mocking app.net for not being free. They are mocking it for being a generally silly idea borne of nerd-rage against 'the man' err... Twitter... wait, what?

Yeah, my brain found it unreadable.

"This means it produces many utterly vile posts - but all of them are true expressions of people as they are, not as they pretend to be." A vast majority of the vile posts are peop…

Canvas Networks (USV Funded) is looking for engineers #3 and #4 to join a small close team building the rich-media community platform of the future. Our stack is Python/Django/MySQ…

New York, NY - Software Engineer - Fulltime Canvas Networks (USV Funded) is looking for engineers #3 and #4 to join a small close team building the rich-media community platform of…

The only bump in service we had was ~30s of downtime when our multi-AZ RDS cut over to the failover instance. :) I think we lucked out a little bit...

Amazon.com does not run on the same EC2 that you and I use. It runs on a nearly identical system that is isolated and private to Amazon. I wouldn't be surprised if they were in ent…

This is what reserved instances are for. You can by low use reserved instances for disaster planning.

Yeah, my ~20 instances are okay. I think we had a hiccup with our (multi-az, whooo!) RDS though.

> informative titles get changed > uninformative titles left intact hn 2012

What are the best resources for an experienced programmer looking to pick up up ObjC and iOS? I'm specifically not looking for 'in-24-hours' or 'without-writing-a-line-of-code' typ…

New York, NY - Software Engineer - Fulltime Canvas Networks (USV Funded) is looking for engineers #3 and #4 to join a small close team building the rich-media community platform of…

Count this as a vote for more languages.

We do the same thing for the same reason. Luckily we were able to split off a lot of our other content serving (same content, not to canvas elements) to a CDN which is backed by ou…

Related: custom SSL for Cloudfront. It's a real show-stopper that I can't serve Cloudfront over SSL via a CNAME.

They're solidly useful for killing apps that don't play nicely with CPU/background services.

Your two complaints are that 1) your phone is slow and old, and 2) a specific app is poorly put together. Somehow, from this, your conclusion is that the entire Android ecosystem i…

Webcache of the actual post: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http%3...

"OSX for Hackers" would have a real tiling window manager.

Yeah, C# tuples are a pretty glaring hack in an otherwise great, evolving language.