Animus7

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by Animus7 15y ago
I'd talk to the CEO instead. While there might be some part of the larger picture you're not seeing, a CTO that doesn't understand or care about the level of garbage in the system isn't doing their job.
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by Animus7 15y ago
What about rolling out updated code? No app, especially web app, is static, so this is a huge deal. I saw no mention of how this extremely common workflow is handled without taking the app offline, and how this deals with e.g. schema change
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by Animus7 15y ago
An SEO company that starts automating more than they don't has given up on SEO and turned to spam-for-hire. So I think you're asking the wrong question.
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by Animus7 15y ago
I don't think it's splitting hairs at all. When you have a centralized point of failure (e.g. datacenter) backend that runs the show, you're not 100% client-side. You're probably not even 10% client-side. And as Amazon has shown us, you're
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by Animus7 15y ago
The title is misleading. It's not 100% client-side if it queries facebook's servers. And it will only scale as well as S3 and facebook allow. That's a far cry from infinite.
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by Animus7 15y ago
Your torrents aren't "down". In the same sense that having a theoretical crappy ISP that blocks GMail doesn't mean your GMail is "down". When we talk about downtime we usually mean a global outage, for most everyone. That's what happened at
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by Animus7 15y ago
100% uptime is possible, and it's possible today. Nobody complains that their torrents are ever "down". So to correct: 100% uptime is not possible... with a central point of failure such as a datacenter.
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by Animus7 16y ago
What's stopping people from scripting up clickspam? People already do this to competitors. Imagine what they'd do if there was direct profit. And what's stopping advertisers from noticing this fundamental flaw?
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by Animus7 16y ago
Distributed systems are just parallel systems in which any operation can fail. There's a lot of boxed strategies you can use and literature you could read, but understanding the above is half the battle. Therefore I'd recommend anyone start
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by Animus7 16y ago
It just takes time. 10K hours or whatnot. I've been writing C++ almost every day for the last 10 years, and I'm still learning. My best advice would be to just do it. Don't focus on memorizing the syntax of pointer-to-member functions or th
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by Animus7 16y ago
Probably. Coming from the same perspective, I agree. I'd say some of it is pointlessly tedious, though, such as the one with manual division.
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by Animus7 16y ago
I think that if getting a rejection from YC is enough to stop someone, then that was probably one of the reasons they were rejected.
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by Animus7 16y ago
This depends greatly on what your app is doing, what your platform is, how many people you have, and so on.
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by Animus7 16y ago
To say that Android will seize some percentage of the market by 2016 is baseless, especially if you're basing it on yesterday's numbers. "Research" like this is fatally flawed for one simple reason: 2016 is five years away. The way that tec
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by Animus7 16y ago
I remember Stoustrup saying that this question was the reason that C++ doesn't have a double-asterisk operator. Everyone seems to give a different "obvious" answer.
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by Animus7 16y ago
I didn't see any real explanation of the tech, but it seems like a (slow) synchronized clipboard that has nothing to do with your body at all. At best, confusing, at worst... an anecdote: I remember when I had to convince my grandma that cl
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by Animus7 16y ago
Food for thought: it's pretty obvious today how Facebook got to being the #1 trafficked site in the world. And yet if you tried exactly what they did, you wouldn't be nearly as successful. In summary, I think you might be asking the wrong q
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by Animus7 16y ago
Either that or a hacker so twitchy they don't have time to check for ctrl-v's before hitting update to get back to their spambot side project.
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by Animus7 16y ago
My bad, my math is sucking today. My brain thought "hm, 1999, now it's 2011, so add 10 to the 1900's to get 2000's, then add 10 more to get 2010's => 20 years". I always find it interesting to post-mortem my logical blunders. But sadly,
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by Animus7 16y ago
You've been a cloud admin for over five years and working with Linux for over 20, but you don't know the difference between symmetric and asymmetric encryption? I'm as arrogant as the worst of them, but this sounds borderline ridiculous. Th
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by Animus7 16y ago
Sounds like Diaspora with a new name to me.
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by Animus7 16y ago
Well, it does other stuff like mine pictures for meta tags, the privacy implications of which wouldn't be obvious to a non-techie.
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by Animus7 16y ago
Neat. It's pretty much exactly what Color is trying to do, except it cost $41 million less to make.
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by Animus7 16y ago
Trusting my bill payments to a third party is a big deal, especially if it means I have to reroute all of my bill emails to them. Chicken/egg problem here: I wouldn't sign up for this until it had plenty of established customers that would
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by Animus7 16y ago
I have a feeling that this site won't be up much longer after making front page of HN, and it will have nothing to do with server load.
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by Animus7 16y ago
I think this is might be too stealth. I checked out the site and I still have no clue what your company is doing.
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by Animus7 16y ago
I completely disagree. Your advice applies if you're in the web business, but HTML, CSS, and Javascript are hardly "general-purpose" and they won't help you in coding up a router firmware.
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by Animus7 16y ago
There are as many kinds of programming as there are kinds of engineering. Want to build web sites? Administrate corporate databases? Program robots? While a few concepts carry over, the tools and workflows in the different branches of progr
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by Animus7 16y ago
C, being the glorified assembly language that it is, would be an excellent intro to programming if we didn't insist on teaching it as a high-level language. A beginner's course in C will tell you "uninitialized variables are bad", and "don'
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by Animus7 16y ago
Reliability? Scalability? Apparently if your lappy goes down, so does your site, and if your site ever makes the front page of HN your ISP will probably cut the figurative cord to your house. Unless the purpose of your site is to show pics

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