auntjemima

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I have a long, random password for every site, it is never the same.

I have a long pass phrase that unlocks the encrypted records of said passwords.

For most sites (most are not important) I make one note in my encrypted records and then make firefox remember them from there on out (long pass phrase for firefox master password keeper, too).

For online banks I remember something weird and arbitrary.

I couldn't comment on anything specific to lights, but I can comment as a web user. Sometimes it's the little things... I was a bit jarred by your website being so dark. The menu buttons were hard to find (hard being a relative term here, of course) because there was a lack of contrast. And then the news page shocks the system again by being bright white. On the blog page, the menu buttons go away (but they do not on any other page).

Usability things aside, am I guessing correctly that you are intentionally making the site very dark in order to say something about the light industry? I don't quite get it... on a gut level I would have expected something crisp and beautiful maybe, in order to match the product (something maybe like http://www.betterplace.com )

I liked that talk -- but I've read that infant mortality rates are a misleading indicator and I really want to know what Mr. Rosling think about the subject. The U.S. brings far more at risk kids into the world and so the statistic is deflated. Because those at risk kids are way more likely to die in the first year (instead of in the womb).

AWS is a separate wing from the Amazon site, they buy their own servers and datacenters. There have already been numerous S3 and EC2 outages.

You won't get any support at AWS unless you pay for a premium contract. And, unlike SimpleCDN, there is no SLA with CloudFront yet.

While everyone has indeed heard of AWS, they are not in the same category yet with Akamai and Limelight just because they released a CDN product.

In each case, for the sake of a discount solution, you are probably sacrificing reliability, bulletproof contracts/SLAs, and a TON of presence locations vs. something like Akamai.

I like my brands just as much as anyone, but I think you're taking just as much chances with SimpleCDN vs. CloudFront. And with SimpleCDN you get better prices and an SLA that offers refunds for outages (which is better than nothing).

SimpleCDN looks like it's already done something like this ("easy API, democratizing the CDN").

While I'm not a customer of either SimpleCDN or CloudFront yet, this looks easy enough to deal with:

    http://www.simplecdn.com/solutions#UploadBuckets

It's also MUCH cheaper than CloudFront:

    http://www.simplecdn.com/pricing

Also from that page: "There are no contracts or monthly minimum fees, etc."

It looks like they don't have nearly the reach that something like Akamai or Limelight has (but comparable to CloudFront currently):

    http://www.simplecdn.com/noc

For a small to medium sized project, this is what I would personally sign up for rather than CloudFront.

The one with the weevil ("snout is just over 100 microns wide") blows me away too.

I close almost any window with the word "rockstar" in it these days. No thankyou.

It's too bad that "flu" is often used for many things besides influenza, most notably the stomach flu which usually lasts 24 hours. That's way more common than influenza. I run across a lot of people that even think the "flu shot" is for those kinds of flus...

If you liked that, you will REALLY like http://www.gapminder.org

I'd take two billion too, set up the rest of the money as a trust to fund four specific areas:

1. get people in the developing world clean water, access to enough food, and healthcare

2. give people money to get themselves out of debt (with accountability)

3. lobby the US government for various tax (simplicity is needed), healthcare, and humanitarian laws

4. funding for major energy research results

site's unusably slow (right now)

People are on their way to addressing the problem:

http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/openbsd-misc/2008/9/12/327...

Here's the main thread on swype:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=299938

Here's the main thread on swype:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=299938

I am new here, don't know what protocol is for duplicate (or in this case highly related) threads. Here is a newer entry about swype:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=300601

I am new here, don't know what protocol is for duplicate (or in this case highly related) threads...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=300026

Cool, thanks. I've tried Dasher before and did not get the hang of it. Swype looks better but I won't be truly sold until really trying it obviously. Like with predictive text entry on phones etc., the problem of deciding between two perfectly valid "guesses" based on context seems like a hard problem.

(btw, no, I have nothing to do with this company!)

Watch the video here to be impressed

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10037202-1.html