I went to college with him and he was just as odd back then.

He "ran" an _attack ad_ for a student judiciary campaign calling a friend of mine a rapscallion.

Odd dude, but to my great surprise, he appears to be doing interesting work. Wish him nothing but the best.

Can you elaborate on this? Where can I filter for this? I absolutely hate flying, so even saving 30 minutes would be great, if the costs aren't out of control.

Both Google and Kayak... and I think most others will let you filter flight legs by length although they usually include layovers, which may or may not be match your weighting.

At one point, this said it was due to a Denial of Service attack. That text has since been pulled, unfortunately I didn't get a screenshot.

The email I received:

DNS Performance Issue Incident Report for Linode Investigating We are currently experiencing denial of service attacks that are targeting our DNS infrastructure. Aug 23, 20:48 UTC This incident affects: Hosted DNS Service.

Somerville at least has RCN to fall back on to, and they've been good to us. Still, more competition can never hurt!

He did--he called out Rdio (http://rdio.com) as an example.

Presumably that is the only one. Xamarin features it, but everything else they feature is an in-house corporate line of business app. If there are 'lots of great apps' out there, you'd think they'd tell us.

Not encouraging.

Well, right now I have just built two "in-house corporate line of business apps" and so far, the pay was reasonable and time-savings due to underlying framework huge :)

That's fine - the point is that in those cases the end-user is not the customer, so cost-savings trump user-experience.

We're having issues with -1a but not with -1c. Wonder if this is isolated to a single rack that hosts multiple AZs?

And unfunny satire at that.

I'm not sure who you're replying to or if I'm reading your post right, but Rdio's mobile app is not a native wrapper around HTML5, it's built on top of Xamarin's stack, which provides API wrappers around the native platform.

I was supporting thenmar's conclusion that there are still things to recommend Spotify over Rdio.

The HTML5 bit was my aside, given that one of the comments to thenmar was with regards to it's user-interface. And I suppose I should have been more specific and referenced the Mac desktop app, not the mobile client.

My guess is they have logs of every outbound TCP connection—it's not like Tor is the only protocol that can be used for evil.

Hi,

Our servers buckled a little bit under the load. We load-tested, but missed a piece of infrastructure in the chaos. We've since beefed up that last piece of infrastructure, and you should be all set now to use the download form at http://xamarin.com/download. If you're still having trouble, contact our support at support@xamarin.com. Cheers!