Don't run your own dns.

There are plenty of good and free dns providers with friendly web interfaces.

When you host your dns elsewhere, you have options when the server is down.

What's a good free dns provider? Although I think I need a name server? (This is all black magic to me) I'm trying to pay the host to just set it up for me but they said they'd do it for free sometime today so will just wait I guess. Host says my domain registrar should give me a name server, the domain registrar says my host should give me a name server which is what's confusing me!

I've been looking at http://zoneedit.com/ which is quite good apparently, again though lol I'm not sure if this is what I need

http://www.ubuntu.com/devices/android



Also re: servers/hosting...there's some pretty real concern against hosting with US hosters due to the Patriot Act and other fun things. Friend of mine told me that not hosting in Germany was a dealbreaker for a couple of pretty big clients of his company.
Obviously I'm not convinced laws here will not change to the worse but it's something to concider.

Yes, zoneedit will do what you need for free. It is everything you need.

A conceptual workflow:

• somebody enters "www.yourdomain.com" in their browser
• They need to convert that to an IP address, so the browser does a dns query.
• The root .com servers are queried to find out where "yourdomain.com" info is.
• The root .com servers reply that ns*.zoneedit.com has that info.
• ns*.zoneedit.com is queried for "www.yourdomain.com"
• ns*.zoneedit.com returns the IP address of www.yourdomain.com
• the browser connects and gets the page.

So you need to do exactly 2 things:
1. Create a zoneedit account, give it your domain name->IP mappings
2. Set zoneedit as the dns servers for your domain with your registrar

Use an online whois tool to verify your work.

Ah thanks! On one of my less valuable domains I got it working now with zoneedit, seems good. I have ~6 domains though so I think I got to pay but that's not a problem seems quite reasonably priced

G,

PM me your AIM sometime if you want, I could def help you with typical windows questions, and your project is interesting to me, so I wouldn't mind swapping info anyway.

I concur with everyone else's advice anyway. Personally, I'm using Amazon for my DNS, it's super cheap and insanely reliable.




On another note, posted a developer job on Craigslist today, with instructions to send a cover letter and resume. For your enjoyment, literally the first response (bolding added by me):

Not if x is -6 or UNSIGNED_MAX - 7.

Who here is from London again? I just went to the London HN meetup was very cool, hundreds of people, free beer, some good talks and Joel Spolsky gave an interesting talk as well about how in communities it's important to naturally repel people you don't want as well as attract those you do which I thought was interesting.

If anyone is around for the next one let me know can go for a pint after!

lol a talk on "the benefits of the banhammer" pretty sweet! I'm up in the North West, bit of an expensive trek but a HN meetup would likely be very cool imo.

So, my boss was heard to say "I'm Steve Jobs" yesterday. I'm fairly sure he wasn't entirely kidding.

Okay, I'm confused.

That was my roundabout way of demonstrating MrWooster's point that "0 is False" is not universal to all programming languages (in this case, Common Lisp)

Sure wish someone had asked the question about our product that exposed a major requirement miss before we went live...

Ah, I thought it was Common Lisp at first, but I was thrown by the [1]> part and wasn't quite sure, since that would be pretty non-Lisp.

Are you currently working on Common Lisp? What editor are you using that has that sort of output? Not using Emacs for Lisp programming is just... strange.

I am not a programmer but I love solving the problems from things like the spotify and ACM challenges: thinking about possible solutions, creating algorithms in text or pseudo-code, finding ways to optimize a solution, ...
I can actually write the programs as well, as I have some background in java/C/C++ from college, but as I said, I am not an experienced programmer.

I know that my forte, and also my personal preference, is towards the 'problem solving' part, and the actual programming is something where I'm at a significant disadvantage compared to 'real' programmers.

Hence my question: are there actually jobs geared towards this skillset? How would I go about finding them? For example, what kind of jobs would you be able to get into if you impress the spotify people with your solutions for their problems?

Basically, what are my options if I am a worse 'programmer' than most but a better 'thinker' than most.

It was a CLISP session. I don't "really" use LISP, though I have some familiarity with it.

Yeah only nil and false are false in Ruby. 0 is true as is [] etc.

Learn Python or Ruby and solve the stuff again using those. Really easy to pick up, tons of good online resources. I guess Python is concidered one of the easiest languages to pick up (Ruby is a bit tougher/more confusing at first due to blocks etc immo)

Thanks for the suggestion.

Why do you suggest that I learn other languages, in particular those two? I'm a mediocre programmer in the languages I already know, what's the advantages of moving on to those specific languages? Are typical applications for those languages more interesting / fun / intellectually challenging / ...?

Just to be clear, I don't even know if I want to be a programmer, I just think that solving problems / riddles / challenges like that all day would probably be close to my dream job. And now I'd just like to find such a job

You ever thought about algorithm design as a good career? I don't know much about it as a job at all but if you're a problem solver this might be something to consider.

I imagine you would have to be quite good at some sort of language though to demonstrate them. I absolutely love alg design/optimisation it's one of my favourite areas of computing.

Nice, had no idea this was possible.

pablito_21: I think a language like Python makes it fairly easy to translate your algorithm thought process into code. Java is a little clumsy in that regard imo

Yeah I guess this is the direction I should be looking at. From wiki:

In a perfect world I would just be doing the pencil-and-paper algorithm and be done with it but I'm probably just a dreamer Also, I understand it's advantageous / important to actually know the technical possibilities (and limitations) of languages / framework used for the actual implementation instead of simply trying to think about a problem really, really hard.

Thanks, makes sense. I've used Python in the past to write simulations and stuff like that, I'm gonna look into it.

I have just purchased a new domain for my personal blog and I want to forward all requests to the old domain to the new one...

So olddomain.com/blog/entry should have a permanent forward to newdomain.com/blog/entry

It needs to be a 301 redirect, and I would like to set it up in the apache configs. I am guessing I need to setup a mod_rewrite rule.

Google suggests something like this might do the trick

Any ideas?

Ty


Edit: Actually seems to explain it all here: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current...ml#rewriterule