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by abi 6y ago
What do people gain from spamming your service? Referring especially to the ones that kept going despite error codes being sent their way.
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by abi 6y ago
Neat. Have you implemented any anti-spam controls? How much does it cost to keep it running?
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by abi 6y ago
I see your point from a merchant perspective. A thought: Why don't merchants in high-risk categories such as porn, gambling, etc. use debit transactions instead? Where they wait for funds to be transferred into their account and settle
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by abi 6y ago
James Clear's book, Atomic Habits ( https://www.amazon.com/Atomic-Habits-Proven-Build-Break/dp/0... ), is exactly about this. Really small, continuous improvements snowball into something amazing over time. I g
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by abi 13y ago
Right now, it's not anonymous but we're working on adding anonymity by relaying traffic through intermediate peers (like Tor). Re: stealing bandwidth, I feel like web apps are being held to a ridiculous standard compared to Deskto
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by abi 13y ago
We continue downloading from a different client (generally, files are downloaded from more than one client to improve speed) or if we estimate that that's still going to be too slow, we just load the image from the origin server.
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by abi 13y ago
(I work on peerCDN). Thanks for the question. Right now, it's not anonymous but we're working on adding anonymity by relaying traffic through intermediate peers (like Tor).
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by abi 13y ago
Even though most of the work happens on the client side, there's a tracker server that we run that's crucial to the whole system working (tracks who has what, serves as an authoritative source for data hashes, fights against malic
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by abi 14y ago
Yes, that's exactly how the fallback will work. You can download content from 1 or more peers. If all the other peers disconnect, then it'll fallback to the origin HTTP server and fetch the remaining bits using RANGE requests. There are a w
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by abi 14y ago
Soon! These are early days yet, we hope to be powering the entire PeerCDN site with PeerCDN in a couple of weeks :)
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by abi 14y ago
HumBio (Human Biology) for quite a few years and I think before that, it was either International Relations or Economics. HumBio is really popular because of pre-meds and other people who want to get into bio-related jobs/grad programs.
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by abi 14y ago
It's hard to start and actively run a company in the United States if you're not American citizen especially if you don't even have a bachelors degree to get a H1B visa from your own company.
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by abi 15y ago
+1.
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Embrace theory when it's practical(blog.abi.sh)
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Stanford Computer Science '10-'11 Salary Survey Results
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by abi 15y ago
With regards to generating random numbers, the Foreign Function Interface is also really useful. Here's a one-line wrapper around random(3). foreign import ccall "stdlib.h random" c_rand :: CDouble -> CLong
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by abi 15y ago
Your claim that JavaScript is "notoriously difficult to write quality software in" is unsubstantiated. Which language in your opinion makes it easy to write quality software in?
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by abi 15y ago
Presumably, you wouldn't have to look at the Javascript source because the Clojurescript should directly tell what's wrong when it's compiling to Javascript. This is different from Coffee because Coffee is only a compiler front-end (a lexer
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by abi 15y ago
Google uses MySQL?
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by abi 15y ago
Sweet idea. You should try to make your usage documentation better (more concise and put it on the Github page) cos I'm having a hard time figuring out how to use it as well as the rationale behind each step.
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by abi 15y ago
It depends. It's often been with the case for me that since I'm an undergrad and a lot of my collaborators are not too experienced with Git that people don't have their global gitignores set properly. In this case, it's better to put the ig
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by abi 15y ago
I understand this is supposed to be funny but when I saw it, I was just like "WTF...". Coincidentally, I did just start a very similar Github project myself yesterday. If you're looking for a real boilerplate boilerplate, here it is: https
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by abi 15y ago
What factors do you think might lead to a "big leap forward in processor technology"?
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by abi 15y ago
Anyone know of a more automated system to handle forward/backward compatibility? Obviously, there's a lot of manual coding work that has to be done but is there a system that categorizes these various changes (schema or new URL for a page o
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by abi 15y ago
Hacker Newser rasmus4200 took notes here: http://agilewarrior.wordpress.com/2011/05/28/how-facebook-pu...
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by abi 15y ago
"All three main engineers at Quora" is an extremely inaccurate statement.
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by abi 16y ago
I don't think enough people are understanding (1) how cool this is (switch to the tunnel presets and start tweaking the inputs and the shader!) and (2) how important this is for introducing/teaching people about computer science. Now, for t
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by abi 16y ago
Cool stuff. Are you doing any face detection or do you just pick two random Instagram pics?
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by abi 16y ago
Ah, thanks a lot!
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by abi 16y ago
Question about ITerm : Is there a way to name tabs with just keyboard shortcuts? I find it really helpful to name my tabs when I'm working concurrently on multiple projects but the need to move my cursor is frustrating.

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