mrcalzone

I attend a course at Coursera by Dan Ariely on Behavior Economics, and he talks about the effect of signing an honor code. Interestingly, his experiments showed that people stopped cheating when signing a honor-code, even if no such code really existed at their university. Being reminded of moral seems to be enough.

[http://www.researchgate.net/publication/228263998_The_Dishon...]

I bought a new reserved instance yesterday, and got the email from Amazon about this today. Good thing that "New Reserved Instance prices will only apply to Reserved Instances purchases made on or after March 4th."

I see the same thing. Pingdom reports higher response-time, but no downtime (meaning no alert). Also no alerts from AWS Cloudwatch. I first became aware of the issue when internal api-tests started failing at 9:56am CET. I see users accessing the site, but I don't know how many it's failing for.

Not related to their design, but Varnish (the HTTP accelerator) was initially created by VG: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varnish_(software)#History

Riot on (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427783/) is not from Silicon Valley, but a fascinating story about the Finish dot-com company Riot-E. "The company was such a spectacular failure that it was the subject of the award winning documentary Riot On!."

My multi-AZ RDS also failed over without a problem. The site was down for 5 minutes though, perhaps due to ELB problems.

This might be one of the best reasons to have native (mobile) clients. As a web-developer I like the model of writing one web-application to fit all clients, and being able to link to pages etc. But on a slow connection it certainly makes sense not to have to download the GUI before viewing the content. As the author points out, the content from the API is just some hundred bytes.

I use Pingdom, but wish they could monitor more frequently for exactly the reasons you mention. In theory my site can be unavailable for several seconds each minute, without showing downtime in the stats. I signed up for your service, but looks like it is invite only right now?

I got this on one of my domains too, and it was because of the private whois information (Domains By Proxy). After I removed that, it worked just fine.

I've been thinking of moving away from GoDaddy for a long time, and this was the last drop. It is crazy how they design the webpages to make it as hard as possible to cancel anything. In the email I got, there were two (identical) links telling me how I could cancel the transfer-request, but no link to accept it. It took me a couple of minutes of poking around in my account before I figured it out.

11.900, Norwegian. Worked in a multi-nation company where I spoke/wrote English daily for several years, and read books in English regularly. I guess this explains why I have to use the dictionary in the Kindle a lot, and probably should use it more.

I don't have the links now, but both Google and Amazon have concluded that faster page loads result in more sales/conversions. If you want to render the whole page in the browser in a couple of seconds (Google webmaster tools indicates the "fast" threshold at 1.5 seconds), spending over half a second on the server-side seems like a big penalty.

This might not be a problem on Appstore, but in general I would think a lot of logging would impact the server performance?

When I posted this, the status history showed a big green OK-symbol for April 23... Now it's updated to show the red error-symbol, so this posting make no sense.

I have been wondering about the same thing. Sadly, the article says:

>but returning multiple A records diminishes any possibility of deterministic site selection.

>If I speak to someone who doesn't really speak much Norwegian but tries hard to, I'll answer in Norwegian first – but usually switch to English when I see they're struggling.

I'm Norwegian, and had a neighbor from England. He said that it is hard to learn Norwegian because we tend to switch to English when talking to him. We often started the conversations in Norwegian, but (too) quickly moved to English.

If you are like me and use Google all the day (without giving much thought to the fact that you are logged in, e.g. via gmail), it can be pretty scary to take a look at https://www.google.com/history/

Total Google searches: 21717

None of these searches are in the categories you mention, but I bet you can still make up some interesting statistics about me.

When Genius failed, a story related to (and mentioned in) Fooled by Randomness.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Genius_Failed

Google App Engine is not a language, but it is an environment where you can make a "hello world" web-page from scratch without much code... and it hosted and ready to show his/her grandparents out of the box.

I can't point out a specific reason, but for me the front-page has a bit of a "sedo-parking" look to it. Maybe it's the top-menu and the logo, I'm not sure. Sorry for being so vague, but this was my first thought when I clicked the link.

Not to be self-promoting, but I implemented this on tagdef.com a while back. Also using the Google translate api, it detects if a definition is non-English, and gives the user the possibility to translate. E.g one of the definitions for #lol at http://tagdef.com/lol