jv2222's comments

I wasn't really implying that they were knowingly "lying". What I was mainly questioning was that they had some kind of internal cut off point or fair usage policy.

You get 10000. Here's bumpf from their site....

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What are compute cycles?

Compute cycles measure how much processing time your applications require on the Rackspace Cloud. Using 10,000 compute cycles in a month is roughly equivalent to running a server with a 2.8 GHz modern processor for the same period of time.

How many compute cycles will my applications use?

Since web applications vary so greatly, it's hard to make a perfect guess. However, there are some guidelines that can help. First, you can think of 10,000 compute cycles as being about the same processing power as you'd get from a decent dedicated server or Amazon EC2 instance. For example 10,000 compute cycles would power:

    * about 2.1 million page views using a database-driven content management system

    * about 11 million page views of rackspacecloud.com

    * about 25 million requests for a static 15KB image

Thx, that's a very interesting perspective, and gives me much food for thought :)

Yeah I have to agree it would be used for no good ;)

Hmm, maybe I'll just send him a link to this thread so that he can see that his behaviour does actually effect people.

@yan I had a number of conversations with him, in all of which which he seemed like a really nice guy and perfectly reasonable. Each time he assured me that he had every intention of finishing the work, and there was only a few hours left.

He knew very well that the work was meant to have been completed in seven days. He explained to me that the project had overrun because my friend supplied the artwork late. Which was a perfectly valid explanation for 1 week of overrun. The other 6 weeks, however, are not so clear...

The problem is he's incredibly eloquent and it's hard to believe that he's anything other than a decent bloke. It's only by personally experiencing the promise of "I'll check in the completed work tonight" for two weeks that I actually believed my friend.

Also, If I was to in any way publicly denounce another person it would probably have more negative effect on me than them :)

It's down for me too I think HN effect may have knocked it over.

Even from a mere statistical point of view it's interesting.

Take bayesian spam analysis for example. When we examine the corpus, the words that we find "interesting" are the ones that appear "less" in the data-set.

Just because I say something's interesting it doesn't mean I'm being sexist - perhaps it's just interesting.

Ok, let's reverse this. Is there any profession or hobby that you would find interesting if a male excelled and generally kicked ass at it?

No one is Awesome by default. We all suck when we start out. No one is "expected" to be awesome - be they male or female. So I don't see how "Awesome Female Coder" implies that females are not expected to be awesome.

In the world of coders (where males far out-number females) I think it is a very interesting fact that the lead developer of the halo 3D engine is female.

It's not something you see every day. That's why I put it in the title. I thought the point of creating a title was to highlight the interesting aspects of a story?

These kind of sites were invented in the UK a few years ago. The idea is based on a practice where con artists set up similar kind of "auctions" in the real world (mainly in unused shops on London's Oxford street).

The hook is that as you walk past the shop you see that you have the chance to get a play station for $1. So, you and about 100 other people pay $1 with the hope of getting a play station. After everyone's put their money in then they "randomly" select 5 people in the audience and hand over the play station to them.

Of course after the show, the audience "plants" secretly give the play stations back. So, in essence they keep recycling the same play stations all day long and real punters keep paying $1 and not getting anything.

The title that I originally posted with this link seems to have changed. How does that happen? Thx in advance for answers

I'll go first. Running @ approx 35,000! It's crazy when you add it up.

I think that's great. It's cool as a feed for new stuff happening too. Congrats.

Just in case anyone's interested there's an competitor called http://www.redliner.com

Ok so now I know how the karma got knocked down... but I'm not exactly sure that comment deserves -16 is there a policy against swearing or something?

Experts exchange thread? I can't even find that can you show me the link? (Thx for the answer by the way)

Ok I get it. Just looked here. http://ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html looks liek people have been down voting my stuff. Fair enough.

shiing = shi - - ing !

If I was experts-exchange.com I would be shiing myself just about now.