Speaking of excellent documentation, from the documentation you can jump right into the code and see how a particular elixir function is implemented. Super useful personally for me as a learner. For example , go to https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/Enum.html#map/2 and click on the little "<\>" on the top-right
I've been using Elixir for personal projects for the last 2 years; The syntax is refreshing coming from C#/Java world. I learnt so much while learning to program in Elixir especially Pattern matching, functional programming and Actor-model concurrency. Highly recommended
In traditional banking, UX is an afterthought but from what I see, for BankSimple, banking takes the backseat but UX rules. I say this coz there's no details on FDIC, interest rates, etc.
IMO, instead of doing Banking; they can sell their product to banks
Security:
A Day in the Life of IS investigator,
Microsoft Security Research Center,
Layer 8,
Fun:
Reddit,
Boston Globe's Big Picture,
Atlantic's In Focus,
Others:
Lifehacker,
The Art of Manliness,
Windows PowerShell blog,
Paul Graham Essays,
Anil Dash,
Catonmat,
Joel Spolsky,
MintLife,
High Scalability,
The old new Thing
May be I'm missing something here; Why there's even a discussion about RAID at the EBS level? When Amamzon says, "Amazon EBS volumes are designed to be highly available and reliable" and if we have to talk about RAID then the issue is on Amazon's end