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If you're in AWS, SWF and StepFunctions are great for starting and monitoring task completion / failure for long running processes, either interconnected or single. You can write y…

The OP is talking about how when using a classic load balancer in AWS, your containers will be deployed all exposing the same port, kind of like running "docker run -p 5000:5000" o…

If the stack, LAMP in this case, is Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP/Python? Why shouldn't you need to know about running servers, configuring databases, or other stuff to be a full s…

While I don't disagree with you that there is an opportunity cost of education, it is nearly always better to invest in yourself at an early age[1]. Also, I'm coming from a U.S. po…

Google isn't about to up and close Gmail when people actually pay for it through Apps for Business and Education. Gmail is hardly on an ad supported only model, which could be supp…

Hindsight is 20/20, but when you by IDEA Ultimate, you get all the other derivatives as plugins to IDEA (I have the Python, Ruby, and PHP plugins which is the same as having PyChar…

It will pay off, but it's more a long term investment and you should an opportunity cost analysis on the cost of hardware and expected returns. Use this to calculate your profit. h…

This is exactly what makes reddit so great. I don't have to look at pictures of cats and rage comics if I only want to se stuff about programming/technology/etc.

Banner, the software quite a few universities use for student record management and other things, has migrated from PL/SQL to a Groovy on Grails system in their next version so tha…

It might have been when he initialized the variable result. He goes on to append strings to this variable which would lead me to believe it has some value that you can append to. T…

I totally agree but that would be the in the implementation; the principle is an abstract idea, [1] such as the principles of modern physics. I know it seems nit-picky but as someo…

As a chemistry major, I've honestly seen stupider things allowed to happen in a supposedly supervised laboratory than what this guy was doing. Was it wrong that he was doing it in …

Hyde does that, well the run in the background and recompile as you make changes part.

When I watched NASL the first day everything played great for the majority of the day then my stream started randomly locking up for no reason, just the video, the audio would cont…

What alternate style launchers would you recommend then rather than the standard grid of icons? I agree that it doesn't look very good with few icons and has a bad UX with too many…

Rather than hoping for people to stumble across you, you should probably look at a Who's hiring? post ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2503204 ) and Ctrl+F "remote".

The battery life will be similar, they are just using a realistic test on the 13" now. Go for the new one! :)

He is ecstatic because his app netted him $3/user with apple taking 30%. Now that his app is free he will make $.70/month/user. Apple was taking 30% of his profits before but has g…

I am actually using this book right now as the textbook for my programming languages course, so far it has been fun but I tend to like the pragprog books.

Just start when you feel ready. As for web-app languages, either pick Ruby and use Rails or Python and used Django. There are pros and cons to each, I just happen to use Django bec…

Is there any place where it is easy to find high quality summer internships for students? I did research at GA Tech when I was working on my Chemistry degree and had a blast / lear…

I'm wondering the same thing. I have a dual major (Computer Science and Chemistry) and save the holidays I don't have any time to give a startup. :( I have way too many ideas that …

Atlanta has been rock solid for me the last month, before that I was getting some lag in my SSH but that's about it.

You can add additional RAM in the Extras menu on your Linode. It's expensive and it only lets me add like 300 MB more Ram to a 1GB Linode but they aren't completely inflexible.

I'm looking for somewhere to intern at Summer 2011 and I see that you have a posted internship. Do you have any details about internship at 10gen? If you do, I would love to talk t…