I've talked to some people who use Riak as an S3 and reported that their reasoning for sticking to it is 2 to 4 orders of magnitude faster than S3. This blew my mind, but then they showed me 20ms response times from their Riak cluster and 2-second response times from S3. Now, I think these aren't standard, and in my experience, I'd say Riak is more like a single order of magnitude faster.

I would imagine that most of that is probably due to latency. Which might already be worth the extra effort, depending on the usecase.

Could those design-bugs be in the language's runtime?

This must be an older version of Ruby. I can't reproduce the issue.

I am also unable to reproduce this.

This sounds like a fantastic book. I only wish that I had thought about this before. I want one for my kids and for my niece and nephew.

It is sad that both sides of the gender gap here have decided to make this book about gender. No one made this article out about people and they great things we can accomplish. I'm disappointed.

I was working on a blog post. Thought I would try out showterm. I'm now redoing this as a proper screencast, but I wanted to get it out there.

You are comparing a college student to a professional...

First, you can't "force" yourself to love programming. If you came here for the money and not the challenge, then you will fail. I spent a lot of time in college learning about programming outside of class, but I also spent a lot of time avoiding programming.

The experiences in other parts of your life also help shape you as a programmer. Practicing 14 hours a day 7 days a week is not going to make you the best programmer. Problem solving skills come from all aspects of life.

If you truly want to be a great programmer then you are going to have to practice. The best advice isn't really about programming: -If you program 14 hours a day, and have no other life then it is time to find something else to occupy some of your time. It will change the say you think and help you solve problems better. You need some knowledge of people too or you will create horrible solutions to people's problems, and you will never be successful. -If you never program outside of work/school you need to find a side project. You won't get great without practice. Take at least 4 hours a week to work on something that someone is not forcing you to work on. This can be some OSS project you have been hearing about. It can be a new OSS project you want to build. It could even be the next big thing that will have you buying yachts and race cars for the time you aren't coding.

Maybe an ex-CEO will come back, and turn this all around? No, no, probably not.

Why are they continuing the app catalog? I really want to write apps for a shrinking market of people who still own a pre (I'm one of those people). I really hope this canned response is followed by some amazing announcement. Right now it just sucks.

Hopefully his parents will say, "Wow, you worked so hard on this." Anything except, "Look how smart you are!"

Those comments breed laziness and allow people to say, "I guess I'm just not as smart in this area."

It is amazing to see how far we have come. I'm so glad that I picked the right industry to get into. The world changed all around us, and we were a part of it.

My only fear is that this will flood the market with crapy developers. That is how this change WILL be like the DOT COM boom.

I'm going to assume you don't do hiring at your company, then. Because the market is already flooded with crappy developers. The resumes that come in are often amazingly bad. Of those that pass that check, most of them can't even talk the talk. And fewer still can actually code anything worthwhile.

You did not pick it...it picked you!!