The first paragraph kind of ignores the homeless and the poor and even Mr Average Joe, who's got a list of medical conditions, which he can't afford to fix, so getting himself locked up for a while, just to get access to healthcare, doesn't sound insane.
Can you imagine that? Remain free and barely be able to put food on the table for your family or go to prison, just to solve a medical problem?
Europeans are amazingly gullible. No one in the US can be denied medical care thanks to Kennedy and unlike Germany doctors don't have to report the patient to authorities if they are here illegally.
Sure they can, except for immediate emergencies and for pregnancy labor[0]. Immediate emergencies are not preventative or palliative care, nor are they a substitute for a comprehensive health care system available to everyone.
Yeah, it's Europeans that are gullible. You're the one who thinks everyone in America gets medical care no matter what their circumstances. There is no non-evil reason for an American to post what you posted.
Helping with setup is great, but config is where the real pain is. So maybe some pre-defined config files? Or a generator of sorts? So if I have a nginx or apache web server and I spin up a 16gb DO instance just for that, the config by default would actually use all of the ram, instead of being capped to small defaults.
We have default settings for the services you add to your servers, but you can tune everything. Look at our Nginx doc for example (http://docs.devo.ps/services/nginx/), you can set up pretty much anything. The example section also shows you what config file we generate (if you're interested in this).
We give you all the tools to manage your infrastructure: provisioning, configuration management, variable management and automation.
I'm assuming that you're sort of doing the wordpress.org/.com model with paid hosted and free, open source self hosted options, right?
I did spend a few minutes on the site figuring this out.
imho the free trial is too close/similar looking to the download now and unless you know how wordpress plays, this can be confusing. Also, the fact that you can donate to the same site you have to pay for is a little weird.
Wordpress has a clear separation for a good reason.
I'm not saying what you're doing is wrong, I just think how it's presented can be improved upon.
The question is: is it really cheaper to run and maintain your own custom stack/server network, than getting these guys to do it, when you factor in the amount of time it takes/hiring staff, etc?
I think it's the luck of the draw/poor selection of supplier.
My girlfriend did fiverr logos for a while to build up a portfolio to be able to get reasonable clients and charge more. All her work was unique and very well researched.
I'm by no means defending the lunacy, but it would be an efficient way of transferring such a huge amount of water: heat it up using the core or the holy kettle and let the steam rise up through the earth, which would then fall down as rain.
It's not about legality, it's about convenience, while living in the UK, I honestly stopped downloading illegal stuff and was surviving on spotify+netflix+lovefilm+bbc iPlayer.
Now I'm in Latvia for a while and none of those (except for spotify) work without a proxy. So TPB is my friend again.
I have no problem with paying, just make it convenient and reasonably priced (iTunes I think is not, maybe I'm not rich enough).
Can anyone who actually understands what the upgrade document states do a how to or a straight modification of a popular vcl, so people who don't have as much experience and pretty much just use these default vcl files?
Here's one that I and a few of my friends use routinely:
I am sure that if you ask nicely, the project members of these efforts might just give you a hand and upgrade to VCL 4.0 syntax a usable Wordpress template. Be willing to test and contribute back with whatever you can though.
Or if I currently don't have the time to do this, I have to either stop using varnish completely or not upgrade.
I get the whole needing to drop backwards compatibility thing, but without an idiot-proof way of upgrading, you're sentencing users like me, who use Varnish as a sprinkle of magic on the server.
Some examples of before/after of actual vcl files are a must in my opinion.
I'm late to this party, but the answer for you is to just not upgrade to Varnish 4.0 yet. Keep using 3.0.5, which is still available and still stable.
The "standard" VCL files for popular apps like Wordpress and Drupal will be updated eventually for Varnish 4.0 by the people who maintain them--which are typically not Varnish staff/volunteers, but people who work with those applications specifically.
When services like Varnish go through major upgrades like this, it is normal for there to be a lag between the main release, and the general availability of updated "recipes" or plugins.
First of all, kudos, Varnish is an amazing piece of kit and hat's off to you sir.
However, I've been where you are and know how you feel, what you've said makes perfect logical sense to you, in your mind these are clear instructions on what should be done, but they still mean very little to someone who's completely new to this (even though they've been using Varnish for a good while now).
I'm a WordPress dev (I know, but it pays the bills), but I have been put between a rock and a hard place, so now I'm also responsible for setting up DO droplets for standalone websites. The reason I use Varnish is simplicity: apt-get install, wget on a WordPress vcl file, change a port and we're saving ram and can serve to 6x-10x concurrent users than before on straight nginx.
Thing is, I'm not alone in this use case, I know several people, who adore the magic and ease of use of Varnish. None of us know the insides, but we're can copy-paste and change a few things.
We respect and understand the need for dropping backwards compatibility, but all believe that the upgrade docs desperately need some examples.
Your docs are great for someone who has the time to read them all and learn all about Varnish, like a book, but (with no disrespect) borderline useless to someone who's got deadlines and a ton of work and simply has no time to learn this system that he's been relying on for a while.
So I've scanned (not read, ain't nobody got time for that) everything inside of the link you gave and while very interesting and comprehensive, if I was a sysadmin on a salary, I'd sink a few days into this and become really good at it, but I'm booked up, so I just need this up and running, so again, it's useless.
It comes down to your resources: do you have the man power to create several default vcl files that people can "just use": like a vcl for a RoR app, vcl for a WordPress site, vcl for a Symfony app etc (depending on actual usage/popularity)...
I know it's a catchy and grabby title and sort of BS if you think about it, but it just works.
It took me an hour to get a DO dropplet running and blitz.io reported numbers that made me happy ($10 DO dropplet, large WP site, 27k+ requests per minute), that's enough for us.
I've got a few other ideas, but I think that if your company does something similar, you'll be able to get a much wider appeal and engage with users a lot more, which is great PR and marketing for your paid service.
Picturelife kind of works the way you describe. It doesn't delete your camera roll automatically but other than that it's just a big online storage for your photos. You can browse all of your images from the mobile app and it shows thumbnails until you zoom them.
This is mostly what Carousel does. The photos are all stored in Dropbox. What it doesn't do is your #2, which is to automatically delete the photos from your local device after a period of time. You can do this safely yourself, though, since the files are all stored in Dropbox.
You stood up for your country, then the government hurt you so bad, that you were taken to the hospital, the government then came to the hospital, took you from there, proceeded to undress and torture you. They then threw you out on a cold field to die (it's -14C there).
That vs.
Walking down the road, boom, a lot of me is missing, shock, I'm gonna die, ouch, ouch, dead.
I know which way I'd prefer to go if it was down to these two choices.
> Walking down the road, boom, a lot of me is missing, shock, I'm gonna die, ouch, ouch, dead.
More like, hide out in Yemen for 10 years organizing violent jihad against the United States and protecting Al Qaeda members from the Yemeni government, then walking down the road...
It's tremendously demeaning to political protestors in Ukraine to compare their situation to people like Al Awlaki.
I'm annoyed at myself for feeding this thread which has really nothing to do with the Ukrainian situation, but you make it sound like drone strikes only hit terrorists. I'm sorry, but you've been fed the wrong narrative. Take, for instance, this extract from [1]:
An estimated 286 to 890 civilians have been killed, including 168 to 197 children.
I'm not saying that it's done on purpose, and intent does matter when considering responsibility. But unfortunately, intent makes little difference to the dead.
I'm sorry to say, no one on the ground is worried about a demeaning post made on HN, I happen to know a little about what it's like, as a lot of my family lives in and around Kyiv and several of them have been lucky to get out of the protests with non life-threatening injuries only. Others we can't get hold of. Feelings are a little irrelevant right now.
Can you imagine that? Remain free and barely be able to put food on the table for your family or go to prison, just to solve a medical problem?