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cedrichurst | 13 years ago | on: Frameworks Round 3

Reserved instances are simply a pricing construct. You're paying upfront for up to 24/7 usage, but you're running on the same pool as the standard instance. Dedicated instances, on the other hand, do what you're talking about but they're much pricier:

http://aws.amazon.com/dedicated-instances/

cedrichurst | 13 years ago | on: My girlfriend who's an MD wants to learn how to program. How should she start?

The R tutorial on codeschool.com is also really well-done, similar domain to matlab but not quite the same.

cedrichurst | 13 years ago | on: Farewell, neighbors

Patch was a competitor to Everyblock. EB pretty much pioneered this space.

cedrichurst | 13 years ago | on: Farewell, neighbors

Per another thread of discussion, apparently the rules of the GPL do not apply to the licensor, only the licensee. If MSNBC accepted OSS community contributions to the Everyblock codebase, they might be in violation. But if it was a one-way offering, they can apparently still retain full rights. I imagine the initial Mozilla-Knight foundation grant makes this a bit more complex, but IANAL.

cedrichurst | 13 years ago | on: Farewell, neighbors

Thank you for the clarification. I've humbly been schooled in the nature of opensource copyright law.

At any rate, I've started a petition to open up the source code and user-generated content to the public domain:

https://www.change.org/petitions/msnbc-open-source-the-every...

I was on the site nearly every day and poured hours of my life writing community posts, updating information, etc. This may not mean much to people outside of Chicago, but stuff like the epic debate between Eddie Carazana and Jim DeRogatis on the future of the Congress Theater, gone forever?

https://www.google.com/search?q=carazana+dirogatis+everybloc...

It's a part of history. And the fact that a media conglomerate erased it from the web with zero notice is, frankly, troubling.

cedrichurst | 13 years ago | on: Farewell, neighbors

But this code is GPLV3. It's really curious how the source code became out-of-date. Isn't that a violation of the license?

cedrichurst | 13 years ago | on: Farewell, neighbors

The fact that this code is not current is extremely surprising, actually. It's GPLV3-licensed, so my somewhat uninformed expectation is that MSNBC would be obligated to open-source any derivative works? Unless they did a complete rewrite of the codebase at some point.

I created a petition asking MSNBC to open-source the latest codebase and also release the user-generated content to the public domain:

https://www.change.org/petitions/msnbc-open-source-the-every...

cedrichurst | 13 years ago | on: Petition to open-source everyblock codebase & content

I do realize that the parts Everyblock codebase were released some time ago prior to the MSNBC acquisition:

https://code.google.com/p/ebcode/

But the last update was June 2009, nearly three years ago.

It would also be a shame for the user content to be lost forever. Some of us poured tens or hundreds of hours of our lives into community discussions. It should be a part of the public record.

cedrichurst | 13 years ago | on: Help HN: Developer laid off 5 days before Christmas, have kids

A recruiter phishing for hiring managers maybe? But I would suspect this is legit and totally above-board. This is part of what online communities are all about.

cedrichurst | 13 years ago | on: Pickadate.js

I'm still completely baffled that Dojo doesn't seem to get as much love as it should.

cedrichurst | 13 years ago | on: Features of Solr vs. ElasticSearch

I love both Solr and ElasticSearch but the big missing comparison for me is: are there any books available? Or even comprehensive tutorials beyond the basics? I love ElasticSearch but it was a huge pain getting up-to-speed on everything. Figuring out things like EdgeNGrams (something I already knew how to do in Solr and Lucene) meant digging into the source code. I'm not shy about doing that myself, but giving that advice to a consulting client would be a non-starter. With the explosive growth of ES just in the last year or two, it's really time for someone to start working on a book. Packt, Manning, O'Reilly, any news?

cedrichurst | 13 years ago | on: 512 Paths to the White House

Thanks Jeremy, Shan and Mike. I'm continually blown away by the data journalism you're doing over at nytimes on the election. It's truly an inspiration.

cedrichurst | 13 years ago | on: Looks like github is down

Yup... https://status.github.com/

cedrichurst | 13 years ago | on: CoffeeScript source maps

This is possibly the most important thing to happen to my frontend development workflow all year. Amazing contribution. Thank you.

cedrichurst | 13 years ago | on: Comic Sans Criminal

Comic Sans also comes from a pre anti-aliasing era in personal computing. If you viewed it on a 640x480 display with no aliasing, it's actually slightly more readable than other fonts like Times New Roman. See about 3:50 into this presentation:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4X4f83C8ANg

cedrichurst | 13 years ago | on: Out of control Java processes when dealing with a leap second?

MySQL is also apparently affected, according to the #mysql IRC channel.

cedrichurst | 13 years ago | on: Reddit Down

This seems to be a widespread issue with Java and the leap second. Reddit, LinkedIn and Facebook affected. Personally speaking, my pager just went off five times in the last hour. It's going to be a long night.

cedrichurst | 13 years ago | on: Introducing Prose: A Content Editor for GitHub

It uses backbone routers, so try something like:

http://prose.io/#MyOrganization/my-repo

Worked for me.

cedrichurst | 14 years ago | on: Deploy Grails Applications on Heroku

That's not really a productive criticism. Are there any specific issues you've had with Grails? Have you looked at it lately? It actually has a fairly thriving developer community. Admittedly, the community is mostly Spring/Java stack exiles, but its starting to attract quite a bit of new developers and PHP/Rails converts as well.

cedrichurst | 14 years ago | on: LinkedIn Buys Real-Time, Hosted Search Startup IndexTank

I don't work for websolr, but I do quite a bit of work with Apache Solr. I'd imagine Java integration is supported through the native Java client, http://wiki.apache.org/solr/Solrj, which is maintained by the Solr team. There are also a number of Solr client libraries for Python, Ruby, PHP, etc. All searches against a Solr index take place over HTTP through an RPC interface, so building an API for a specific language relatively straightforward.