To be fair, healthcare.gov was clearly behind schedule and they released what they had. I don't think the government shutdown caused the problem. It may have made it worse because they had a few less people working on it.

Server capacity issues mean they didn't perform load testing or underestimated demand. Of course, the code wasn't done so it's hard to test.

A small team could have written that website in the time allotted without issues provided the specs didn't change. The cost of the site and the number of people involved is insane and demonstrates the consultants took them for a ride.

I bet it was cheap, inexperienced developers who had no clue how to build a scalable site.

SteelSeries mouse drivers will cause the Windows 8.1 upgrade to fail.

Microsoft really screwed something up with the Windows 8.1 mouse drivers. They really need to get this fixed.

I use mail on iOS and google gmail client for work mail. Both are decent but I think gmail is slightly better. You should try it. I don't actually like Gmail all that much but the iOS app is good.

As for desktop, mail.app is buggy but not as bad as trying to use thunderbird. All mail clients suck

I actually wonder if Intel could catch up a bit on GPU performance with the integrated graphics on the newer chips. They're not process blocked. Same thing with AMD on the A series chips.

If this is the case, why can ford do it? I can download sync updates and install them with flash myself. I don't need to go to the dealership and my iPhone does work over bluetooth with sync. (iOS 7 iPhone 5)

Granted, I have a 2014 model year car too.

What's the difference if you're at work or home? The NSA can get into your network either way.

HP is also a consulting company. Perhaps they should work on new killer apps to use all those new CPU cycles and actually give people a reason to buy new computers. HP could get into 3D printing and mass market it.

HP needs R&D right now. Most companies cut it in 2008 and they need it badly at this point.

Recently purchased a new Mustang. I wasn't sure this time what I wanted and had a list of possible choices including the Camero, FR-S and Challenger. Many of the local dealers don't want to order a vehicle. Few had base models on the lot. Anything under 30k wasn't on the lot. Some dealers didn't even have a car I could test drive.

Step 1 is actually forcing dealers to keep updated inventory. I don't know how many times I went to a dealership or called and a vehicle had been gone for weeks.

If GM improves this process and it works for them, perhaps we'll see better service from all the automakers. I'm all in favor of that both as a consumer and computer programmer in Detroit.

OS X, iOS and Android. Google used some freebsd stuff in their userland too from my understanding. Even though android runs a linux kernel, everything in userland is not GPL.

Then there's the fact that 33% of all internet traffic goes through FreeBSD. (netflix)

I can't agree with this last part about sockets. There are two consumer sockets for Intel and AMD. That means you really do have to pay attention to the socket.

AMD is pushing A-series chips for consumer which one 2 different sockets (depending on age) plus the AM3+ for FX series.

Intel has socket 2011, 1150, 1155 in the consumer space right now.

PHP is actually a lot like Perl. It also makes sense because PHP was originally a template language for Perl prior to getting rewritten in C.

The problem with PHP is the inconsistency. Parameter order is not consistent. Point releases change behavior and break code.

I also find PHP to be more irritating to debug than other web languages.

I was wondering this too, but upon further research, VPS adds things Jails can't do like migrating from one physical machine to another without restarting programs and possibly even keeping sockets open. It has a mechanism to transfer an image of the disk state too.

Apparently, VPS also allows for sharing of several different types of resources to lower memory usage and they support distinct pids (init is pid 1 in each one for instance).

It looks like the new plan is if you want to virtualize freebsd instances, use VPS and if you need to run something else, use bhyve.

Git has scalability issues with very large repositories storing binary data. For example, I know someone who converted an SVN repo to Git with every picture he's taken plus modified versions after post processing work. (35GB of pictures)

It took him 10 minutes to commit anything due to Git not handling it.

Git is a great VCS for many use cases, but it actually does suck for binary file management under extreme conditions.

We all know how often other parties win in the US.. seriously this is a non option until the american public gives a shit about what's happening and by then it's going to be too late.

I have tried voting for other candidates in the past and they never win.

Maybe he's more of a BMW guy?

I can't speak to others views on windows phones, but I looked at android and windows phone prior to getting an iPhone 5 several months back. I was an existing iPhone user and haven't been impressed with the lack of innovation at apple. The sony and samsung android phones seemed rather good and I also looked at a nokia running windows. The build quality on the nokia was very good and was obviously better than most of the other devices. It felt heavy though. Then I started looking at the OS. It didn't seem terrible and I could figure out how to use it fairly easily. Then I started looking at apps. That's where they lost me. A switch to android would allow me (with some $$$) to get mostly back to where I was on iOS. I wouldn't have access to my iTunes collection anymore. With windows phone, I'd be giving up all sorts of apps.

That was a few months ago, but google has threatened to pull youtube from Microsoft several times. If even youtube is at risk, how am I supposed to trust it's a platform that's going to stick around for more than a year or two. Microsoft keeps starting over with windows phone and breaking backward compatibility.