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@Thefalken VPC doesn't cost anything unless you're using specific enterprisey features. There wouldn't be any cost involved for basic EC2-style usage.
Commented Mar 12, 2013 on Amazon EC2 Update - Virtual Private Clouds for Everyone! at Amazon Web Services Blog
Amazon EC2 Update - Virtual Private Clouds for Everyone!
If you use or plan to use Amazon EC2, you need to read this post! History Lesson Way back in the beginning (OK, 2006) we launched Amazon EC2. When you launched an instance we gave it a public IP address and a DNS hostname. You had the ability to create a Security Group for ingress filtering and...
There must be a reason the standard letter page size is 8½ × 11", right?
Nope. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_(paper_size)
"The American Forest and Paper Association argues that the dimension originates from the days of manual paper making, and that the 11-inch length of the page is about a quarter of 'the average maximum stretch of an experienced vatman's arms'."
Plus, the real ISO standard is A4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_216
Commented Nov 19, 2012 on Touch Laptops at Coding Horror
Touch Laptops
I'm a little embarrassed to admit how much I like the Surface RT. I wasn't expecting a lot when I ordered it, but after a day of use, I realized this was more than Yet Another Gadget. It might represent a brave new world of laptop design. How can you not love a laptop that lets you touch Zardoz...
I pronounce most of these "move over for a second".
Commented Apr 15, 2011 on ASCII Pronunciation Rules for Programmers at Coding Horror
ASCII Pronunciation Rules for Programmers
As programmers, we deal with a lot of unusual keyboard characters that typical users rarely need to type, much less think about: $ # % {} * [] ~ & <> Even the characters that are fairly regularly used in everyday writing -- such as the humble dash, parens, period, and question mark -- have ...
> The real answer is competition. I have at least 4 ISP's that can serve my house.
I'm in a fairly large city in New York state, and we've essentially one option for decent broadband, Time Warner. There's DSL, but it's shit.
Commented Feb 15, 2011 on The Importance of Net Neutrality at Coding Horror
The Importance of Net Neutrality
Although I remain a huge admirer of Lawrence Lessig, I am ashamed to admit that I never fully understood the importance of net neutrality until last week. Mr. Lessig described network neutrality in these urgent terms in 2006: At the center of the debate is the most important public policy you...
Great addition, much needed!
Commented Sep 9, 2009 on Call Redirection via the Twilio REST API at Twilio Cloud Communications Blog
Call Redirection via the Twilio REST API
Twilio is excited to announce the addition of asynchronous call redirection to the Twilio REST API. This feature opens a wide range of advanced call queuing, call center, and enterprise uses. Using the call redirect API, you can interrupt an in-progress call and have it begin executing a new T...
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