While I like the artwork and sentiment, the characters are really accurate. MySpace are moms and kids, Twitter is 30+, ok the YouTube guy looks about right assuming he's a commenter :-)
- DaveDelaney.ME
"The tiny rural hamlet has been plagued by visitors filming themselves in sexually explicit positions with the name 'F***ing' in the background."
- bcultral
from Bookmarklet
I bet it's a fucking nice place really.
- Rob Sellen :o)
"Not only will it allow users to read and manage their comics from their desktops and mobile devices, but it will also come with access to an online store so that readers can purchase their books directly. Starting at $0.99 per issue, the LongBox store will have one major factor that differentiate it from the iTunes model, says Hoseley. "Along with buying an incentivized 12-issue subscription for $10, publishers can and will provide discount coupons for print versions if [the reader] subscribes to the LongBox version.""
- LANjackal
from Bookmarklet
The Nerd-Valdez Update: Clean up efforts are underway but the extent of the damage is still unknown. Initial estimates put expected death tolls of indigenous species at 1200.
- Geoff Schultz
I write software in my sleep during the busiest facets of my project; and they work in the morning
- RAPatton
RAP- done that myself once or twice :) Creepy.
- Roberto Bonini
Me too, but the software I write in my sleep usually just does stupid stuff that we don't really need. :)
- Internet's Tad
I don't know what's freakier, the fact that you write code in your sleep or the fact that you remember it when you wake up.
- Alex Scoble
I dreamed last night that I had to organize a meet up, based on #hashtags, and everyone had the wrong tags. Everyone ranting at me woke me up at 5am.
- Ian May
i was dreaming about new features in feedly last night...but they aren't there this morning.
- Trent Olson
Trent: if you share with us some of those dreams, we will try to look into making them reality :-) Have a great sunday!
- Edwin Khodabakchian
thanks Edwin! to be honest, they weren't very good anyway! you've already implemented my "exclude websites from using mini bar" idea, for which i'm hugely thankful...
- Trent Olson
Searching for something has led me past this post. Was going to press the "like" button and realized I already did. So this is my second "like".
- Sarah Peterman
This is definitely true for me. I sometimes think about programs I'm working on in my sleep too.
- Mike Child
Ah, in that case: *blushblushblush* Thank you, Caroline. :D
- Steven Perez
from IM
it's ok i have a weird stalker fetish.........apparently...
- Caroline
Really? *ahem* I C U THRU YUR BLINDZ. :D
- Steven Perez
from IM
You look more like either The Shadow or The Invisible Man.
- Greg GuitarBuster
Oooooh, does this mean Claude Rains will play me in the movie SWINE FLU: THE REVENGE OF THE INVISIBLE MAN? Cuz that would be teh awesomesauce. :D
- Steven Perez
from IM
Kaia will never find me while I'm wearing this disguise. :D
- Steven Perez
Steven, Hellen Keller could find you wearing that disguise. ;)
- Alex Scoble
NO WAI! I'm the Shadow, bee-yotches! No one sees me ... UNTIL IT IS TOO LATE!!! MWAH-HAH-HAH-HAH-HAH-HAH-HAH!!!!
- Steven Perez
from IM
...you look like one of those scurry dudes from "Dark City"-- Sleep! Now!
- .LAG liked that
Ooooooh, I forgot about the Strangers! But then, I can't have any water. :(
- Steven Perez
from IM
They should totally add the Stephen "The Shadow" Perez character to Team Fortress 2...he totally fits in.
- Alex Scoble
+50 Liberal arguing skills, +100 Awesomesauce, -10 Skills with the ladies. :D
- Steven Perez
from IM
What would your three weapons be? You need a primary ranged, backup ranged and a melee weapon.
- Alex Scoble
Hmmmmm, ... primary ranged - sonic screwdriver; backup ranged - BFG9000 (because why go small?); melee - size 13 boot, just like in DOOM. :D
- Steven Perez
from IM
You forgot your V for Vendetta mask, lad. o:
- George William
The FedEx guy forgot to drop mine off, so I had to get one special ordered for my big head. :D
- Steven Perez
from IM
No Anika, I think she looks cool. I know someone who would just love this. I have to make sure she NEVER sees this picture. <Ratz! Now it's in my FaceBook stream> -:- < Notice how I can talk just like @Oprah now? > ++Goal! Live4Soccer you post some neat stuff.
- Chris Loft
yummy yummy.. now I need too taste !!
- Peter Dawson
having done this once, and ONLY with my lips, i have respect for the amount of work this took....and i wonder what they (she, if it's a self portrait) used to make them stick!!!
- carlotta fancypants
do they make a cream to clear that up :)
- (jeff)isageek
I find it interesting that she would prefer to die painfully via obscure torture rather than open a twitter account. I mean, I was a skeptic at first glance but...
- Patrick Boegel
I liked the interview, even if Dowd's tone was a tad frivolous. The answers from Biz and Evan were pretty down to earth.
- Benin
2. New tools (sorta like Visual Studio) will evolve that will tell the programmer the cost per server DLL or compiled bundle. Imagine a tool that, after you compiled your code, would say "with 100,000 users this code will cost you $497 of Rackspace time, $535 of Amazon EC2 time, $524 of GoGrid time."
- Robert Scoble
More economic incentive to hire good programmers!
- Dean Clark
And with EzChip and Netlogic those apps will run faster than desktop apps! here we go into the future!
- Stephen Pickering
3. Employers will hire people who can write more efficent code, because it'll be in their best interests to do so. This is a huge change from today, where programmers are incented to "get it done" and not care so much about processor time.
- Robert Scoble
1a. Not really - developers will continue developing. This item refers to folks who make deployment decisions.
- Internet's Tad
Process control and synchronization will become more important than load balancing.
- Brian Roy
2a. This in turn will cause fierce competition and will lower prices.
- Internet's Tad
Your second point is very interesting indeed. For subscription based services you can really pin-point cost vs. price and adjust dynamically/automatically when the code changes (especially in a cost +) scenario.
- Christopher
as far as web based stuff goes a more immediate realization is the bandwidth costs associated w/ images and other static file downloads. web guys n gals are now paying attention to client side caching, gzipping and all that good stuff that reduces bandwidth and overall # of http requests
- Arin
Tad: I disagree. Because EC2 and other cloud systems will charge for processor time (and other systems will charge for bandwidth amount) employers will start putting much more pressure on programmers to remove those costs from their code.
- Robert Scoble
This isn't just about deployment. Software authors writing code for sale will have to justify their footprint and bandwidth efficiency.
- Patrick Pushor
3a. I'll believe it when I see it. Even when shown all of the advantages of agile and test driven development most CTOs continue to view it with scorn. As long as non-technical managers are driving the bus there will never be enough focus on quality of code.
- Internet's Tad
Niall was also saying that programmers will choose between available code (Wordpress plugins, for instance) based on how much processor time they take. Word will get around that XYZ plugin does basically the same thing as ABC plugin but does it in 20% less processor time, which will reduce cost.
- Robert Scoble
Tad: when the CTO is seeing the credit card statement from cloud computing every month they'll start looking into it. They might be lazy, but if the tools present cost per component these things will change, and change quickly. Especially if the economy remains as crappy as it is today.
- Robert Scoble
It'll still be a race to see who can put what out the first. Regardless of cost or quality, many time the guy first out of the gate wins. As long as you're first you can always go back and fix things later... Or so most of the development managers I've known seem to think.
- Internet's Tad
I think there may be a large amount of work going into profiling and optimizing frameworks/apps, but most developers won't worry about "processor" time. We'll write the code and then there'll be a bigger emphasis on clearing up bottlenecks, etc. Biggest change might just be in best practices.
- Internet's Tad
Let me clarify - the biggest single waste of processing cycles is processes running with nothing to do. Being able to dynamically allocate and retire "processing units" by controlling which processes are running when and were is the 80%. Code optimization is the 20%. No argument it will become an issue, but really efficient code idling is a far bigger waste than code with 4% wasted processor time.
- Brian Roy
Virtualization will get more attention with cloud computing models in the future. Virtualization will enable organizations to create virtual instances designed to dynamically isolate processes and services so systems can inter-operate with minimal impacts when 1 process hangs or gets saturated. This way we can shape our systems to align hardware, code and processes to optimal fit
- Susan Beebe
I had a post on this a while back Cloud Programming Directly Feeds Cost Allocation Back into Software Design (http://highscalability.com/links...). The optimizations will be different for different clouds. For Amazon the goal is drive load to the CPU (http://highscalability.com/strateg...). Other clouds will no doubt favor other optimizations.
- Todd Hoff
Right Susan. I've also read that virtualization in the cloud will also make services much more robust because if one data center or even service provider (ex. EC2) bites the dust, it'll be possible to relatively seamlessly switch to another. Virtualization on the cloud is very exciting.
- Internet's Tad
Toddh - great point. I assumed an on/off virtual CPU like Amazon - which would mean the goal is high CPU utilization. If the model is % load based or how much CPU you actually use the model is very different.
- Brian Roy
Tad I think you're right and those coming out of the universities need to start listening to their Instructors ( I was an Instructor) on taking the time for best practices. Most coder wannabes at least in the U I taught at wanted to "get in and get er done". Very impatient.
- Melanie Reed
... and they can come to learn what impact they are having on the state of the climate - and the planet as a whole
- James Pearce
This is really nothing new -- mainframe developers could also have a sense of how much their code cost.
- Michael Lee
I wonder if it would provide incentives to tier access to CPU heavy functionalities when the load starts to scale up. With few users, you want to attract users, so you offer everything you have, but as you get more users, to make sure that you can manage your cost increase, you need the additional users to be more CPU efficient, so maybe you will not let them access the more CPU hungry functionalities...
- Antoine Bertier
+1 Michael, in fact it goes back to time sharing days....
- Antoine Bertier
Cloud computing is time-sharing or load sharing, or load balancing. We haven't thought about it enough as a concept. See Brad Templeton's talk at #BIL
- Francine Hardaway
from twhirl
Michael: one difference, though. Lots of programmer friends of mine have Cloud Computing accounts at Amazon, Gogrid, or Rackspace and are writing and uploading code there. I was just at Gogrid and got a demo and their cost report is in your face. You know exactly how much is being charged to your credit cards. Back in the mainframe days the costs of those things were so high only the biggest corporations could afford them and no one had credit cards back then. The feedback loop is much faster.
- Robert Scoble
software development / programming cost depends on cost of communication, it's 80/20 not aiming at the 2nd performance or energy percentile. though, tuning specialization could emerge due to selling to the uninformed - without ever breaking even...
- wolf hesse
programmers and arch designers that can produce results that have a high perceived value and a low resource use (cpu, bandwidth, storage) will be rewarded. this may not result in better experiences for the user, tho.
- MikeAmundsen
Its not because of cloud computing, its because of a recent trend in accountability. But I like your point, Scoble.
- Aaron deMello
For business applications, MVC-like platforms (JBoss, CakePHP, RoR) will win in the end with cloud computing. Since they support pattern expansion they are very efficient, the prerequisite for cloud computing. The programmers themselves don't matter that much in this case, analysts and architects do however. On the contrary, writing computational intensive code (e.g. C++) will require the BEST people. Those who know their algorithms will thrive.
- Kris
Basically it comes down to this: machines should work; people should think. Something that IBM has called the Pollyanna principle. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Kris
I agree with Robert in that CTO's might start thinking differently when they get that bill every month from Rackspace (or whoever), but in a grand scheme of things I don't think anything will be "really" done about programmers code and the processing power that it uses. If that was really the case, we'd all start programming in C again... or even Assembly!
- Daniel Marashlian
i suspect that providers will learn that CTOs are looking to shave costs. as a counter-measure, providers will sell 'blocks' of CPU/Bandwidth/Storage ala fixed cell phone plans. they'll capture the 'monthly remainder' as extra profit. some will offer 'roll-overs' to soothe CTOs. the ones that offer totally metered pricing will be shouted down by the FUD of 'runaway' monthly costs touted by the packagers. oh yeah, the pkg price magically matches the cost of your own hardwr/maint costs.CTOs will like that
- MikeAmundsen
Business and marketing is always going to drive development, that's why 80% of software is never released. Even if it is released, functionality is always going to be #1 on the priority list. Testing, Bugs, UI, and especially performance are always last on the list. That's why a formal education in Computer Science is going to be more critical then ever in the years to come. All of those secondary pieces in the software development cycle need to be woven into the developers DNA.
- Daniel Marashlian
This really is full circle to the 70's and 80's again. One problem that I can see impacting on how competative the space could be is with the ease on how people can simply move supplier. If you have a service that involves data creation and handling (your customer CRM for example), how easy would it be to port that data across to a competing cloud based service for whatever reason (costs, disagreements, change in business)? I know what's involved on the inhouse side and would be similar in many respects.
- alphaxion
Quite slow on older machines, and memory hungry. Video player isn't champion of compatibility. But nice concept.
- bnoise
I've always steered clear of BitTorrent until now. JP (@jobsworth) floated Miro 2.0 across my screen yesterday and I am already hooked. All I want to do now is find an easy way to move .avi files to my Apple TV (at the core of my multimedia system at home) and I will be even happier man.
- Conor Ogle
Miro is a big part of my DIY home theater set-up
- Robert Hafer
I've been a Miro fan for a while, but have to admit I haven't used it much lately. It seems like a relic from the era where we needed to actually download video-- everything is flash streaming these days.
- Ross M Karchner
Flash streaming doesn't make for a good big screen experience, IMO
- Robert Hafer
However, if you don't need Miro but you like the resume playback feature, give a try to SMPlayer. Better than VLC. </OT>
- bnoise
Been using Miro for quite a while now. After loading XBMC on an Xbox, I still let Miro do the downloading and use the Xbox as a media extender. Haven't tried the new URL capability to stream Hulu yet though. Might get me back to viewing from Miro more.
- Ken Pruett
Checking it out. Going to see what's up with this player.
- Paul Wade
looking forward to 2.0, I use Miro almost every day :)
- Daryl Milne
Been using the standard Miro for a while and it is pretty good. so will try the new one
- Stephen Dean
Seems Cool, but it does not work on my PC; I used HULU.com once. My goal is to make a HTPC and use streaming video to watch on my TV.
- Justin
I have no problem with BitTorrent, but what I want to know is if Miro's BitTorrent is up-and-running whenever Miro is. IOW, does just having Miro open mean I'm participating in BT? Does that question make sense? I don't want to be streaming content OUT without knowing that I'm doing that.
- Joey Gibson
grrr I can't use MIRO it crashes everytime I open it..for torrents I use VUZE, I used to use Utorrent, which I think is actually a bit faster, but VUZE there are more fun thing to play with...btw is that really you LEO LAPORTE...remember watching you on TECHTV..Call4Help and Screensaver were my fav shows!
- Justin