What a fantastic idea. I think this will really speak to those of us that may need a little nudge before feeling comfortable. I've dusted off my PAUSE ID and signed up.
Does anyone know of any other langs/communities that have tried something like this? This seems like a great idea to learn and contribute.
Almost every langs have a CPAN alike. They just copied it.
CTAN for TeX, CCAN for C, forgot the ruby name, LISP has it even with a cpantesters alike testers grid,
PHP split it into PECL for binary extensions (higher quality) and PEAR, which struggles.
emacs lisp, node.js, ocaml, ...
go uses git only for their distributed module system, which is a nice and simple idea, (github as default) but also appeared in common lisp before.
I think the question was less "What other languages have module repositories like CPAN" and more "Does anyone know of other module ecosystems that are running projects like this to get people involved?"
Do you have a list of a few of the larger ones? I usually glance through /r/grandtheftautov every day or so but this is the first i've heard of subreddits organized for manipulation.
Fascinating, so a 1TB sata drive is $70 [1] these days and that equates to about 7 cents per GB, if you made three copies to insure your backups had a 'good' copy that would be 21 cents/gB so its cheaper than using your own hard drives.
The whole 'we've decided to kill that product, you've got 30 days to get your stuff back' and the 'we lost a switch or something and we'll be back online day after tomorrow' kinds of things are still concerns of course.
I've always been impressed at the prices Amazon could charge for S3 and keep it a going concern. I'd love to see the breakout on that revenue but I'm sure that isn't going to happen any time soon.
Oh it gets much worse if you assume that you replace your hard drives every 3 years (their warranty period) which would add a $1.94/month depreciation cost.
You could add into the cost / GB of bandwidth to access the files, not as easy to factor into a TCO model in the personal use case.
It gets better, not worse. At steady state you just account for the depreciation cost, though, right? So that's $1.94/TB/MO/Drive, or $0.0019/GB/MO/Drive or $0.01/GB/MO for 3-way redundancy.
The way I was accounting for it you have to replace the drive in 3 years, you have 3 drives. So you've got a cost of $210 that recurs every three years (purchasing the drives). If you distribute that cost across the 36 months that is a $5.83/month fixed cost (doesn't vary by storage usage because you have to replace the entire drive). Unlike Google which can amortize depreciation on a per-GB basis because they are spreading out the replacements amongst many thousands of drives, as an individual you're on the hook for your own drives regardless.
Google's pricing is pretty close to Amazon's for low-end users, but high-end users will still find S3 to be much cheaper. I was hoping Google would be the competitor that would pressure Amazon to reduce the cost of S3. S3's prices have been pretty constant over the last few years even though I would assume that Amazon's expenses have decreased due to lower storage and hardware costs.
It threw an error that my video card (Radeon HD 3450) wasn't supported when I used firefox, but seemed to work fine in chrome. Maybe I need to enable some of the webgl options in about:config.
I believe that the phone doesn't have support for the frequencies on which AT&T's GSM network runs, but it does have support for T-Mobile's GSM network. So for now, T-Mobile looks like the only carrier in the US that this will be going to (with Verizon and Sprint both running CDMA and not being able to carry it).
Off-topic, but still: In the US you seriously need some thorough regulation to make this bullshit go away.
You are acting like this is how a normal market is supposed to work. To help you gain some perspective I welcome you, and your standard GSM phone, to any country anywhere in Europe to see how mobile phones, networks and service-providers are really supposed to work in a competitive market.
As an American, I officially envy you, and I've been bitching about the cellphone situation for years. T-Mobile is the closest to European phone practices that you can find this side of the pond.
A classic mst presentation (can't wait for the YAPC 2009 videos). After I saw this, it convinced me that even as someone learning I can still participate and contribute back to the community.
It is asinine. I think the multitude of stories about twitter being a "bad news source" are mostly out of frustration after seeing CNN covering tweets rather than doing any real reporting. I think twitter definitely has its place in the news, but as something to supplement the story, not be the source entirely.
I use linode and have had absolutely no problems (they even upgraded our storage and RAM a while back for free). I have a 360M and a 720M and both scream for what I use them for (mostly catalyst).
Also, linode has a chat that often has a very good level of discourse, even no members of the staff are present. Sometimes I ask a question there, and sometimes just listen :)
