DigitalOcean still beats Linode on price as half the time I don't need a 2GB server but I do want to keep servers separate (multiple 512s at $5 is better for me than 1 2GB).
I would love to hear why as well! Our quality and stability have significantly improved over the last year and as a co-founder of DO, I would like to understand what specific issues you faced. Feel free to shoot me an email directly (mitch@digitalocean.com) to take this conversation offline.
> He wrote the code to show you that you don't need to import IOException you can use a catch all to avoid a throws statement in the method header.
You're conflating two things. I could just as easily have caught Throwable or Exception and not needed the import. The question is: what would you actually put in the handler that would be so much better? The actually provided sample code is much worse, as it prints to System.out instead of System.err, and it doesn't report an error to the parent process, so you muddy up the output (imagine if the file you were copying actually ended in "This is horrible software, and you shouldn't use it.", how would you even know) and there is not a terribly easy way to detect an error happened.
> This is bad code as he said.
It's not bad code to declare a static exception as escaping your method, particularly if you don't have any logic for handling it. It's bad code to have an exception handler that doesn't.
Depending on the website 13 requests is kind of small, 20-30 requests for a regular page probably more likely with maybe 3 or 4 that can be cached on an unoptimized site and the rest being image assets for that particular page and so on.
So with 300,000 I get something like 10,000-15,000 pageviews which is pretty much nothing.
What makes the "request" metric even more confusing is they say "Unlimited Data Transfer". Which means absolutely NOTHING if the # of requests is limited.
Beats is built to grow off of the beats brand at least I believe it is.
They also have tons of money for advertising so they had a superbowl ad and many TV ads so I think maybe a large amount of people that don't know what spotify or rdio is have heard the name beats before.
I think people should lose their money and learn why it is a bad idea to keep your bitcoins in something pretending to be a bank, an exchange, and other things all in one.
That is disappointing I understand that work deserves money but I wanted a viable competitor to the big 2.
Emacs has gotten better because of XEmacs, vim may get better because of newvim, but that won't be possible here unless you want to contribute your time for a closed source project and hope that whoever sees your pull request chooses to merge it.
Here's hoping they change their mind and perhaps develop a few useful paid extensions or something like that instead.
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I'd say apply now before it is to late (if you haven't already), attempt to get a job during the summer for what you think you can ($60,000-80,000 may be iffy unless you have access to more progressive companies) and if you can't: go to school.
If you are really lucky you could probably even find a job that will let you go to school part time while you are working which would be the best of both worlds.
You don't have to attend school right away but you'll probably lose all momentum to go as you age.
