chrisboesing

S3 alternative: http://www.hosteurope.de/Cloud/Cloud-Storage/ They say it works with S3 compatible desktop software, so I guess it uses a similar/same api.

(I'm on my phone right now and can't find the English versions of the sites, I have linked the German sites instead)

Comment · 14 years ago

I can totally understand that.

What I don't get is why the F1 officials haven't learned more out of that tragic accident. Sure the cars are much safer than they were when Senna died, but why do they have to at more and more races in city centers? Sure, I can understand that they want to keep Monaco for historic reason, but there isn't a good reason to have races in the city centers of Valencia, Singapore, and soon New Jersey.

Driving that close to walls at the speeds they do, will sooner or later lead to another tragic accident.

For everyone who isn't a F1 fan check out this video from the race in Singapore to see what I'm talking about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qYwC2qov44

Comment · 14 years ago

Thanks a lot for doing this.

I'm trying to choose a framework right now and TodoMVC is really helping in doing so.

I have one question though: Would you mind if I ported your apps over to CoffeeScript? I prefer CoffeeScript over JavaScript, but haven't done that much work in CoffeeScript. I think porting the apps would be a great learning experience and would help others too. Of course I would put it up on Github.

Comment · 14 years ago

Maybe a little off topic:

Red Bull's marketing is impeccable. They started out with all the actionsport athletes and moved upstream to more mainstream, and I guess, more expensive sports (two Formula 1 teams, more soccer teams than I can count), while still doing these crazy things. From Parcours in Santorini, to Air Races all over the world. Seems like every crazy sporting event is sponsored by Red Bull.

I think these have allowed them to be still seen as "hip" and not just selling sugar water like Coca Cola.

Comment · 14 years ago

He talked about it a little bit in the video mentioned in the post. He thinks about "open sourcing"(his words) or patenting the idea and giving the patent to someone who has the financial resources to build it. I guess because of that he hasn't gone into much detail but here is a list of things about the Hyperloop I remembered:

-from downtown LA to downtown SF in 30 Minutes

-cheaper than airplane ticket

-solar panels on the top to make it self sustaining

-energy would be saved without batteries to run at night

-under no influence of the weather

-safe

(-Sarah Lacy made a reference to a TV show/movie with a tube as transportation system, and Elon said it was kind of like that [can't remember the title])

-Sarah Lacy: "Is it possible?" Elon Musk: "Yes!"

Comment · 15 years ago

GigaOm now has a confirmation[1] with a short Q&A that says "VDIO and Rdio are run by separate teams".

[1] http://gigaom.com/video/vdio-janus-friis/

Comment · 15 years ago

Just a quick note: App Engine hasn't left preview.

This[1] blog post from today says at the end: "[...]and we hope you find these tools useful as we get closer to our goal of leaving preview!"

They just rolled out the new pricing.

[1]: http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2011/08/50-credit-for-ne...

Comment · 15 years ago

I have just browsed through the blog of the project manager at http://tagebuch.miniatur-wunderland.de (it's in German). Until now the only thing I could find regarding the programming are the following numbers[1]:

The control software has 145.000 lines of code[I guess for the whole model, not just the airport]

Just the airport control software has 70,000 lines of code.

He has added 200,000 numbers just for the configuration.

[1] http://tagebuch.miniatur-wunderland.de/eintrag/aus-dem-leben... (German)

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=de&sl=de&tl... (English with Google translate)

Comment · 15 years ago

An EBS node in a EBS cluster is connected to two networks. One is used for the traffic to and from the EBS volumes(Primary network), the other is used to replicate the EBS volume on a EBS node to a different EBS node(Secondary network). Amazon wanted to upgrade the capacity of the primary network. Their standard step doing this is to shift the traffic to a redundant router. This step was executed incorrectly. This resulted in the traffic not being routed to the primary network but instead to the secondary network which has less capacity. All this traffic satured the secondary network and resulted in the EBS volumes becoming "stuck". When the traffic got routed the right way all the EBS volumes were trying to remirror. Part of the remirroring process is that the EBS volumes search the cluster for free space to remirror to. The EBS cluster couldn't handle this load and new capacity was needed for the EBS cluster.

Amazon offers a 10 day credit equal to 100% of their usage of EBS Volumes, EC2 Instances and RDS database instances. This credit will be automatically applied to the next bill.