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by Smrchy 14y ago
Buy on bad news it says. Every time i see such a huge drop for the FB stock i think to myself: Should i buy now - i never did. And every time i see the next rock bottom i am glad i didn't. I do believe though that FB has the potential for a
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by Smrchy 14y ago
This might explain the unusual rise of BTC vs. USD. The thief might have just traded those dollars to bitcoins which makes them harder to trace.
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by Smrchy 14y ago
This only works standalone and not embedded in an AJAX application. I only wish someone from the S3 team at Amazon would at least answer to this thread: https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=34281&#38... Hundreds of messages
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by Smrchy 15y ago
Now if only MS would sit down and create a useable NodeJS client for MS-SQL. The lack of a good clients outside the Windows world is what makes me move away from this otherwise great product.
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by Smrchy 15y ago
I agree 100%. Without time tracking Basecamp Next is useless to us too. Migrating Classic to Next and losing our tracked time is no option. We mainly use To-Do lists and time tracking. Time tracking as it only is available in the 49$/month
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by Smrchy 15y ago
I am wondering where and how you terminate the HTTPS connections for websockets. Can you share some details on that?
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by Smrchy 15y ago
Why is there a 1MB reply limit on BatchGets and obviously no limit on Gets? Did anybody find limits on a single item?
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by Smrchy 15y ago
Wish i could read the blog post. I am quite a happy Jekyll user. And while Jekyll still has some downsides it is superior when it comes to handling a load spike from a HN post.
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by Smrchy 15y ago
So what's the solution? Lie when asked for the birthday?
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Dear Google Marketing (Re: Your kids policy)
128 points by Smrchy 15y ago|34 comments
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by Smrchy 15y ago
Even if most of my apps would increase by 10x they would still be cheaper than running a single AWS instance for them. Not even taking into account the easy of management and automatic redundancy that GAE offers.
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by Smrchy 15y ago
I love using GAE and got 8 apps running currently. At first the new pricing model shocked me. But please take a 2nd look. Sure it's more expensive than the old model. But you can set the maximum number of idle instances in your Application
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by Smrchy 15y ago
We are AdSense premium partners and have seen our revenues nearly cut in half while our page views remained constant. I can safely say this is due to the fact that a lot of our visitors use ad block plugins. I can't blame them - some ad for
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Redis new test engine (antirez.com)
5 points by Smrchy 15y ago|0 comments
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by Smrchy 15y ago
This is not the link to the article. It shows a "Skip Ad" and then goes to the homepage.
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Tagging for (ordered) items with Redis and NodeJS(github.com)
12 points by Smrchy 15y ago|0 comments
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Looseleaf: Lightweight blog engine for NodeJS(looseleafjs.org)
13 points by Smrchy 15y ago|3 comments
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by Smrchy 15y ago
I wish the Khan Academy and everybody who is working for this awesome idea and good cause all the best. It is these people that make me feel so proud of mankind. Getting the chance to work on such a project makes money and career fade far i
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VMware launches Node.js, Rails and Spring PaaS(cloudfoundry.com)
225 points by Smrchy 15y ago|56 comments
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by Smrchy 16y ago
100% agree on that. I had a DSL contract with them in Germany and moved to another town where i had internet via cable included. They insisted that i have to keep paying for another 18 months with no way to cancel the contract early. I paid
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by Smrchy 16y ago
This is great news indeed. Can anyone from Amazon say something about plans and/or an ETA for a South American region for all those people in Brazil, Argentina, Chile etc.?
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by Smrchy 16y ago
Wonder what this means for companies like http://jumpbox.com/ We used Jumpbox in the in the past to setup some quick examples for testing.
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by Smrchy 16y ago
One would be that you can access Redis servers with apps that don't have good / mature Redis clients - like Adobe Coldfusion. Even though you still have to cope with the buggy JSON support in Coldfusion then. But better than no Redis at all
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by Smrchy 16y ago
The main pro for storing data in the cloud. Let's say on Amazon S3 is that you also get a web server that is able to serve those same files (public or secure). Even if you need them served to millions of users. You don't have to care about
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by Smrchy 16y ago
I don't know about others, but i guess most of my contacts, customers and yet to become customers appreciate it if i start an email to them with a friendly "Hello" and end with a formal "Regards". When i call someone on the phone i will als
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by Smrchy 16y ago
Considering that most password are shorter than 14 characters, everyone implementing hashed passwords without a random salt could just store them as plain text. The rainbow table for the most common passwords (names, cities, pet names etc.)