If you're going to ignore all of those things, you may as well ignore the cost of food per calorie burnt as well, which would mean to ignore this article.

In some cases these types of motivators can cause you to hack out something that only barely works at first, before circling back with test writing, best practices, etc. But maybe that can be better than not completing anything at all?

You can always refactor your way to an awesome codebase if it starts out a bit quick and dirty at first. Sometimes just having the minimum amount of friction to complete the requirements to get going can be helpful, as starting is sometimes the hardest part.

Maybe you just need to set deadlines as if you are the CEO of your company and not the developer where by certain dates you need the MVP or new feature and it has to happen no matter what.

Maybe build an MVP such that you can start charging people and get customers, which can also be a motivating force to continue on and continuously improve it because you feel the obligation to your paying customers.

A little slower paced than expected, and a little labor intensive like farmville. Maybe some hotkeys to speed up tedium? Or a select all / mine gold command or similar.

Overall awesome work though, I'm intrigued.

I could not agree more about latency. My first try with Century Link last year had 120ms latency which is terrible because Comcast was 15ms. CL upgraded my neighborhood loop and got to 20ms which is fine, but the CL upload speed is still crippled at an outdated 768kb/s where as Comcast I get 3.5Mb/s upload. I work from a home office so upload bandwidth is important.

So since there is no other contender that has both good latency and upload speed I use Comcast for now.

Also I develop software so getting any kind of exercise and workout is important with all the desk-job health problems, so even without a "why bench 235?" I think this kind of strength is still a great value for general quality of life. You don't need a specific reason or goal for this to be good for you.

Looking good/feeling good are nice side-effects as well, and there's no better medicine than diet and exercise (for most people) for long-term better health over a sedentary life style.

That being said this article has been written before: http://www.mensjournal.com/magazine/everything-you-know-abou...

Edit - I should also add I am not trying to get huge, just maintain general strength and flexibility - currently squat 220, bench 175, press 105, row 170, deadlift 265. Body weight 180.

Compared to that, SV is much much better in my opinion. I can't even watch BBT because the laugh track is so grating and don't get me started about "Bazinga", the most trite manufactured catch-phrase ever created.

I get I might not be their target market (small business with about $1000/month on IaaS spending) but there are a couple things preventing me from doing so: 1) $10/month size suitable for a dev instance. 2) Some kind of scalable file storage solution with CDN integration – like RS CloudFiles/Akamai or AWS S3/Cloudfront or block storage to attach to an individual server.

I guess you get what you pay for… infrastructure components and flexibility AWS > RS > Linode > DO which roughly matches the price point.

http://blog.digicert.com/2014/04/heartbleed-openssl-fix/

Excerpt: "Also, Busy IT Guy is right; it's a little disheartening to be listed as Unsafe after having done all the right things, just because the issue date didn’t get updated."

When you re-key, it will automatically deactivate the previous cert and is free. It also gives you the opportunity to update to SHA-2 or increase the key to 2048 bit, which you should do unless you have unusual and extreme legacy support needs (and must keep SHA-1 a while longer).

Building shipping into the cost like Prime however, might do the reverse and expose a seller to over-refund issues where they would lose more on a refund if it must include the total item price without shipping. (When shipping is "free" and built in to the item price.)

Also the VPS up-time we have experienced on over 20 nodes for the past 3 years on Rackspace cloud has been pretty great, all things considered.

I called them up to proactively report it stolen - the problem is they will immediately deactivate your current card and it takes 7-10 business days for the new one to show up. It is not possible to get a 2nd card number without deactivating the first (to avoid a no-card for 2 weeks situation). Or you can have them overnight it to you for $16.

Kind of annoying to pay $16 for a merchant error, or to not have your primary card for 2 weeks during the holiday season (and also the card you use to pay all service bills like cable tv, internet, city/trash/water etc).

Ultimately I decided to do nothing and just keep a close eye on account activity until January when it is less inconvenient to wait for the new one.