Dobbs

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by Dobbs 14y ago
Cloudflare is a CDN.
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by Dobbs 14y ago
You can often approach hosting providers out of band and arrange deals for sites that are normally against their TOS. I've seen it happen on multiple occasions.
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by Dobbs 14y ago
You rock sir. I was on my phone so I couldn't look it up when I wrote the op. Thanks.
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by Dobbs 14y ago
The pump is underwater.
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by Dobbs 14y ago
The standard https check has it built-in with the right flags. Use -h or --help to figure it out. (They provide different output)
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by Dobbs 14y ago
I'd rather have significant semi-colons than significant whitespace[1]. Don't mix presentation and semantics. 1: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SyntacticallySignificantWhitespaceCon...
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by Dobbs 14y ago
Yes. In some circumstances.
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With More Than 20M Gamers Tuning In, Twitch Raises $15M(techcrunch.com)
53 points by Dobbs 14y ago|49 comments
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by Dobbs 14y ago
One person accessing data from "origin" is faster then getting it from the "cdn" but the cacheing lets you leverage bandwidth. Instead of building 100gbps of capacity I can instead build a origin server with 5gbps of capacity and let the CD
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by Dobbs 14y ago
They have this, it is called a Mophie Juice Pack[1]. They have two sizes with different battery extensions. I miss the thinness of my phone without the case but greatly prefer being able to get through a day in the data center or traveling
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by Dobbs 14y ago
Xargs takes a newline separated list and maps the list to a command. find ./ -name '*.log' | xargs rm Finds all log files and map them to 'rm' commands. e.g. if it finds system.log and rails.log it will run the command `rm system.l
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by Dobbs 14y ago
Your point about rebuilding bad instances is just as easy to do with PXE and Chef/Puppet on bare metal.
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by Dobbs 14y ago
At least for Airlines it seems to be more about status than the flights. Having a premium membership on United for example lets you use expedited lines for checking luggage, security and boarding. In addition you get free checked luggage, b
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by Dobbs 14y ago
The duck story is battle chess: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?title=Talk:Battle_Chess#The_duc... I've often had the opposite problem: companies where the CEO is so disconnected from the company (usually by working remotely 80% of the time)
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by Dobbs 14y ago
In the help document there are references to being able to change they syntax to Markdown. I haven't investigated them but give it a look.
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by Dobbs 14y ago
Keeping ZenCoder running is right in line with BrightCove's core business. I can't foresee them shutting it down.
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by Dobbs 14y ago
While I get screwed a bit for almost exclusively using debit over cash I am very excited to see the holdouts of "cash only" start accepting cards under this ruling.
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by Dobbs 14y ago
Learning find is a worthy investment. find ./ -name "*.log" -size +2G -ctime +3 | xargs -P 8 gzip Will find all log files over 2 gigs and older than 3 days. Then it will gzip them split across 8 parallel gzip processes.
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by Dobbs 14y ago
This is one of my major annoyances with python and ruby. I want to take all the package dependencies and toss them into a single executable that at most relies upon the interpreter to be there. With a bit of hacking you can do it but it isn
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by Dobbs 14y ago
> Why would Apple build an iOS router? Sounds like a walking trademark lawsuit. IOS being a networking operating system and all.
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by Dobbs 14y ago
There are parts of the US where you have to travel several hours to get to an Apple Store.
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by Dobbs 14y ago
There is a difference between upgrading a major component like a HDD -> SSD or increasing the amount of RAM and replacing a sub-component of SSD. In addition Apple has historically charged 2-3x for things like RAM upgrades then you woul
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by Dobbs 14y ago
ZFS is very stable on recent versions of FreeBSD, I can't speak for older versions as I don't have experience. I at least haven't had any issues with it and we use it in production. It is an older version and not as feature complete as what
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by Dobbs 14y ago
blahscript.sh | mail -s "Subject" me@example.com
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by Dobbs 14y ago
Your argument is nonsensical. Larry Wall uses perl therefor perl is better than ruby? Not that I'm saying Clojure is better than Haskel or vice versa.
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by Dobbs 14y ago
From what I've seen of the software/web world technical means just that: technical. This includes but is not limited to Programmers, Operations, and even your Sales Engineers. I've seen Operations guys who understand technology orders of ma
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by Dobbs 15y ago
There is a good documentary about how SV came about called, "A Secret History of Silicon Valley", its available online to watch. ( http://youtu.be/ZTC_RxWN_xo ) In my opinion it is a combination of the people are here along with the locatio
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Making Gunpoint’s Save System(pentadact.com)
1 points by Dobbs 15y ago|0 comments
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by Dobbs 15y ago
> Ubuntu seemed to follow in Apple's lead with Hardy Haron and so forth. To a degree but very few people I know use these names. Most use the 9.10/10.04 which imho is one of the best naming patterns for an OS. It is very convenient to l
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Reddit Sysadmins do an AMA.(reddit.com)
1 points by Dobbs 15y ago|0 comments

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