EwanToo

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by EwanToo 14y ago
In the UK owning your own home is definitely "the dream", but in France, owning your own home is much less of a desirable thing, though it is increasing. I don't know about the USA, but with current interest rates and the end of the housing
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by EwanToo 14y ago
Unfortunately not, they currently just let you pick which location (AWS US East, Ireland, Rackspace are the main options I think?) you deploy your app to. You could deploy the same codebase to 2 locations and use DNS to load balance / failo
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Climb to the Sky - Kickstart a space elevator(kickstarter.com)
1 points by EwanToo 14y ago|0 comments
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by EwanToo 14y ago
Judging by the results of most aquihires that I've heard about, they simply don't work. It's almost certainly a nice tax result for the acquirer, making the acquisition cheaper than hiring the individuals with large cash signing on bonuses.
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by EwanToo 14y ago
With a more expensive gate policy, it might not be a better one :)
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by EwanToo 14y ago
That's really odd, I've never heard of fees that high - in the UK I can use my credit cards with Amazon and only pay a few pennies in transaction fees. Have a look at the CaxtonFX Dollar Traveller, you need to load it with $200 but then the
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by EwanToo 14y ago
I think the point of this kind of server is to build the fault tolerance at the rack, or at least 1U, level, not at the level of individual components. If an individual server fails then your service shouldn't even blink.
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by EwanToo 14y ago
There's 2 main reasons. 1, if the AZ that your single instance is running in dies completely, ELB can help fire up a new instance in another zone quickly without having to handle re-routing DNS, etc. 2 if you need extra capacity in a hurry
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by EwanToo 14y ago
True, but the main public status.net implementation so far (identi.ca) already has users, and was surprisingly popular back when twitter was having all the fail whale issues. Twitter would go down, and a minority of the people I followed w
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Ask HN: Why are you supporting App.net over Status.net?
17 points by EwanToo 14y ago|11 comments
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by EwanToo 14y ago
They already have, $5 million from Andreessen Horowitz http://www.crunchbase.com/company/mixed-media-labs
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by EwanToo 14y ago
App.net will have a very similar problem - walking the line between developers who want to "Just add feature x, so my killer app that I've not built yet will work", and between users who just want a high quality functional service. The real
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Edge of reason(gq-magazine.co.uk)
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by EwanToo 14y ago
I think the real bubble is people ignoring the existence of status.net and identi.ca, and the reasons why they never took off as alternatives to twitter. Status.net has evolved into a private twitter for companies but the identica service s
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by EwanToo 14y ago
It's the oldest .com domain, not the oldest domain name
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by EwanToo 14y ago
It's pretty good, ranges from things like pre warning of issues like disk failures, right through to detailed breakdowns of what went wrong if one of your machines goes down. It's among the best it support I've ever received
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by EwanToo 14y ago
Now you've toned down the ads a bit, I've given this an upvote, but I suspect it's too late for this submission.
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by EwanToo 14y ago
Seriously, what's with the adverts on that website? I get a pop-under, multiple flash banners, and in general it slows my work PC to a crawl. I can imagine this guy is making more money from adverts than from freelancing...
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by EwanToo 14y ago
Yeah you can explicity launch multiple instances at your own control, each one uses the same amount of memory - so you could launch 10 instances with 200MB of RAM, or 1 instance with 2GB of RAM. It's definitely worth signing up for, I've be
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by EwanToo 14y ago
It's not in itself a VPS no, it's an "application environment", that's self contained and runs inside the Linux operating system. You can have multiple applications running over multiple instances, and Appfog handle all the deployment, scal
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by EwanToo 14y ago
AppFog handle things like software updates, scaling beyond one machine, DDoS attacks, all those kind of things. You ask them to deploy a (for example) MongoDB service, they do it, and they are responsible for the operation of it. The idea i
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by EwanToo 14y ago
That's so far from a like for like comparison that I can only think you've not read what AppFog is offering...
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by EwanToo 14y ago
I don't know any Ruby beyond absolute basics, and definitely didn't need to use it to get started. If you're using OS X or Linux, just run these 3 commands in a Terminal: sudo gem install af af login af update [appname] to upload your app.
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Why we build our platform on HDFS(cloudera.com)
3 points by EwanToo 14y ago|0 comments
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Microsoft Exchange 2013 features detailed(blogs.technet.com)
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by EwanToo 14y ago
A good example of a developer in a specific, unfashionable, but successful niche is Progressive Solutions [1]. Their target market is far from glamorous, but it's a very successful business (they've actually just been acquired last month).
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by EwanToo 14y ago
Windows 8 aims to fix that with a built-in app store, it's a bit simplistic so far but works. Apps can either be hosted on the Windows app store, or it can be hosted by the developer with just a link from the app store to a download page.
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by EwanToo 14y ago
The change is interesting (though not that new it seems), but Microsoft flatly state that calls do not go over supernodes [1]: "This has not changed the underlying nature of Skype’s peer-to-peer (P2P) architecture, in which supernodes simpl
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by EwanToo 14y ago
Absolutely, and that seems to be a big part of why EBS takes so long to come back - simply booting all those disks over the network generates so much traffic it takes forever! On the other hand, an fsck to recover the filesystem probably ca
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by EwanToo 14y ago
I can see this going down in IT folklore, "Remember to do test your backups and roll back plans, or you might end up like Ulster Bank"

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