Coincidentally, the Amazon cloud was down most of this weekend as their datacenter in West Virginia was impacted by this storm on the east coast. The datacenter I work in (also on the east coast) was not down. I've seen the amazon cloud go down quite a bit over the years. This is another thing you have to consider when picking your host.
I can see it now--what future archeologists are saying about us:
"We found his bones clutching an iPhone. He must have been one of these Scenesters we have culturally read about."
Who actually sampled http://www.last.fm/music/Edwin+Birdsong heavily for the song...
And you want to run Facebook in offline mode because...?
Yes, but what you get is the ability to run Native code, which is _alway_ better according to the original poster. I think this conversation was lost on you. I recommend reading up on some n-tier application design. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multitier_architecture
In reality, your logic and communication bits should be abstracted anyway - isn't that the hallmark of good programming practice?
Yes. That is called "Client side programing". Which if you look at the original post that was what we were talking about. Accessing data is effectively the same if it's cached or not.
Usually caching data is 1-2 lines of code in the programming languages I work with. Not sure about what you are referencing. If you had to manually program a cache in every programing language you would be right. But that is one of the problems that is typically solved for you. It's like serializing data to XML or JSON. I am not personally writing code to do that, but there is a library that does that.
My assumption is that you have software that is in a client/server architecture, which is often the case with collaboration software like facebook.
If you are making an application that doesn't know about the rest of the world, you can either have your application cache it's static data--which is not that hard. Beyond that, your application can save your data for transit later when you have connection. For example, facebook does this currently when it fails to upload an image. The progress is saved, and the upload is completed at a later time.
If you want facebook to be an application that does status updates of your imaginary friends I'm sure that'd not be that hard to make, as long as you wanted them to have a limited set of things they were doing.
It's called web services, that return a standard format like JSON, or XML. That's how we do it at my work. Currently I'm working on a project where I serialize perl hashes and arrays into XML, and pass them via a REST based web service to a C# system that serializes it into a DataTable for display in some
Possibly because the telescope in Chile was a retrofitted existing telescope, as opposed to a new telescope.
GPS is completely over engineering the solution. All you really need is a stick that you take measurements from during low and high tide at a consistent time each year.
So you're saying that the teacher said, "Here's some hot dogs. Cook them now I'm going to go wander off?" Or the teacher said, "Here's how you cook hotdogs on a stick, everyone gather round and grab a stick and a hot dog."
Fast forward 20 years, and people have many experiences with school projects, recess, organized and unorganized sports. There are other ways that kids self organize in America that do not involve becoming lumberjacks at schools.
Right. And being self sufficient is way different then being a good leader, which is what the original article was proposing. I have memories of my mother telling my grand mother not to make me peanut butter and jelly sandwiches cause I needed to be able to make them myself. It's not like the Swiss have a monopoly on that kind of thing.
But to call that leadership training is preposterous.
I find the concept that handling saws, and roasting hotdogs prepares children for leadership positions ridiculous. Every child that roasts a hot dog will become a world class leader? Ridiculous. Now, if you want to say group activities will allow a couple kids out of the group to develop leadership skills that I would believe. But really, when my siblings gather in a pack of 5-6, unsupervised in my parents back yard I'd argue that they are developing more leadership skills then some Swiss tikes that have an adult supervisor just about any day.
Leave children zoning out solo on the TV, reading books, tinkering with a computer, or tweaking lawn mower and they are not developing leadership skills. Not everyone needs to be a leader though.
You install the GUI on top of the base command line portion. It's for squeezing resources out of your machines.
Diplomacy is the art of saying "nice doggy" until you can find a rock.
