jbpadgett

3 outages in 3 months straight according to their own status history. https://www.githubstatus.com/history

I’ve been a subscription paying Evernote customer since 2011 and use the service literally everyday. I hope they make it and the service can continue. The features I love the most are the ability to clip websites of interest as research and tag them the way I like for search. I also find that some websites I clip disappear over time. So my clipped copy be ones my own personal “way back machine” copy.

According to the world bank, 2015 population of Mexico is around ~125 million. This means that roughly 75% of the population could be affected. http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL

"The innovation process always starts with copying and in Shenzhen they are copying systematically at a scale you can scarcely imagine. A student who copies Van Gogh relentlessly may not initially understand how Van Gogh undertook original works of art. After enough copying, that same student may grasp the underlying theories and extend them into new areas."

- China is often criticized for the copying as violating IP, but one could also argue that copying and adding new changes to the copy is the lifeblood of open-source innovation and the nature of decentralized systems as well as human biological evolution. A great book that explores these ideas is 'The Evolution of Everything' by Matt Ridley. I recommend it.

"much of the “Efficiency” America has traded for lower cost manufacturing has come at the cost of our ability to bring all of the key pieces together at home."

- There is likely much truth in this statement by Andy Grove and perhaps American companies and leaders should take pause. Labor cost arbitrage in foreign countries like China and Mexico might be like a balloon mortgage for America where the costs are low upfront for some years, but then the large bill comes later.

I have seen the following patterns implemented:

Pattern 1: * DEV VLANs + DEV Subnets * PROD VLANSs + PROD Subnets * Firewalls between DEV and PROD subnets at network layer - firewall rules implemented by separate net/sec team

Pattern 2: * DEV VLANs + DEV Subnets * PROD VLANSs + PROD Subnets * Firewalls implemented through Security Groups (cloud based platforms) - firewall rules delegated to product teams

I would be interested to see what other patterns teams are using and how security and operations protections are achieved.

Agreed. As a 20 year+ street skateboarder, I can tell you that even with larger and softer urethane (85-90A) wheels, a pebble the size of a tic tac will send you to ground rapidly. The key is to over time develop skills of controlling weight on your board. I suppose this design could be modified some, but more likely that the driver/rider will need to learn some skills from skateboarders :)

Could this be used in some way for robot AI to learn to speak?

This is perhaps indicative of the "wusification" of kids in America today. Virtually anything that could cause any (even the most minuscule) harm mentally or physically is now quickly out of favor. If kids cannot learn to deal with inequity, pain, rejection, competition, etc, they will be at a disadvantage living and competing in the larger world which is full of all these things. Also, perhaps they might develop entitlement mentalities whereby anything that is not smooth, perfect, and fair gets "reported" by them to central "authorities" for policy review and remediation. The underlying expectation is that they don't have to deal with anything they don't agree with or find unpleasant.

These class warfare style pieces are tiresome. SF could be argued to be a "foodie" destination which may attract outside visitors regardless. Artificially caping supply will only serve to increase prices anyway if people really want to eat somewhere. Conflating this with a housing argument is a misdirection mishmash that is borderline linkbait by the post.

Perhaps a solution to this problem is for the NSA to provide "opt-in" well-known collection points for everyone. If only a small amount of metadata is what they use, then the massive copy everything on the wires approach is not needed. Private companies and even individuals could choose to submit some activities that comprise useful metadata for storage and analysis. Those they choose to not opt-in would simply not have a data-stream piped to the well-known collection points. Maybe some variant of this approach? If we still don't trust them (and likely won't for some time), we work collectively to do what the PandoDaily piece suggested which is use valley power to push for more effective oversight. In lieu of that, perhaps we have a collective checkbook pay for a counter-surveillance org to watch the watchers.

I posted about the hostnames topic in detail showing the difference between ephemeral and persistent hosts. See the post here: http://padgeblog.com/2012/10/28/hostnames-in-the-dynamic-inf...

I feel like Dell had a great idea with the developer Linux laptop http://www.dell.com/learn/us/en/555/campaigns/xps-linux-lapt.... Having a mainstream PC linux alternative to Mac is likely good for the market. My thought was that the privatization move was part of a plan to offer more products like this and less of Windows, but the MS investment to support them makes that argument less viable http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/02/05/michael.dell.r....

Has Oracle has eroded credibility for being a good steward for any open source technology at this point? My question is how long before @Mitchellh leads an effort to fork VirtualBox to allow Vagrant to have a reliable future?