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by al_james 16y ago
More than one server across multiple datacenters is the only way. The use either a load balancer (which brings its own problems) or some kind of status aware DNS scheme to route traffic to live servers. I wish linode would offer some kind o
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by al_james 16y ago
Arh... But apple sells the phone AND the ads (iAd) AND makes a profit from iTunes!
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by al_james 16y ago
I am probably wrong here, but I was under the impression that a HTTP based protocol like PSHB would probably struggle to manage traffic at the 1000's of messages per second level. Correct? They will probably be rolling out a pure TCP (XMPP
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by al_james 16y ago
Exactly. Google's approach is to lose money on creating the OS and promoting it (give it free to handset manufacturers) but hope to make money off the users that use it. I am sure they can make money from this, however, I am also sure Apple
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by al_james 16y ago
I am going to cope with this using an apache rewrite. E.g. /resources/screen_ver<any code>.css -> /resources/screen.css Should be simple to remove any _ver<any> string from the url via apache.
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by al_james 16y ago
Great! The article seems to suggest that this only works from amazon origins (e.g. EC2 or load balanced EC2 instances), not arbitrary servers. Can anyone confirm or deny?
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by al_james 16y ago
Arh, but then she will forget how to left click and we will be back to square one.
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by al_james 16y ago
All the advertising networks we deal with only offer HTTPS. Hardly any advertising networks support HTTPS.
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by al_james 16y ago
Sorry for misquoting you. However, with proper CSRF protection your man in the middle argument is not the case is it?
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by al_james 16y ago
Well, I would say its not 'just as dangerous' as a man in the middle attack is harder to set up. Good point though. Maybe this could be solved by including a unique access code with the form that is a hashed value of the user'id and the url
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by al_james 16y ago
We cant serve ads over HTTPS and we make most of our money from ads. So that would be very expensive!
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by al_james 16y ago
But then we can't server ads to signed in users which would be a large revenue cut for us.
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by al_james 16y ago
Yes, I was homeschooled and went on to get a PhD, so this simple poll does not seem to be able to represent that!
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by al_james 16y ago
Hmmm... I see what you are saying, but (for example) godaddy offer basic SSL certs for $10. Not a huge price for anyone.
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by al_james 16y ago
There has got to be a sensible way around this. It seems overkill to require every pageview to be over HTTPS, even for otherwise public sites. For example, should these public discussion pages be over HTTPS on hacker news? On my site I am p
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by al_james 16y ago
Most of the attack vectors for software updates depend on man in the middle (via DNS spoofing), so this would not help right?
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by al_james 16y ago
I am the complete opposite. Having more than 4 tabs open feels like working at an untidy desk. I can't cope with it!
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by al_james 16y ago
Can anyone outline how a software package would protect against this?
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by al_james 16y ago
Yes true. Apologies to any true UX experts (who are not UX zealots) I may have offended.
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by al_james 16y ago
Your assertion that all upsells have a 'nominal chance of benefiting the user' is wrong. Some users love upsells if they are the right deal.
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by al_james 16y ago
It depends what makes you happy. I get happy when I get a great deal more than when its a nice shiny UI. Of course, both a great deal and a great UI is best, but if I had to choose one, I know which it would be.
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by al_james 16y ago
Quote of the day: "This is where you stop looking at your startup as a self-masturbatory piece of UX genius and start looking at it as a business" There was an article on HN the other day about expedia increasing revenue by removing a confu
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by al_james 16y ago
Yeah, its because many of the ad networks that you may load into it simply cannot work asynchronously (document.write). So they have to enforce synchronous loading on the ad manger code.
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by al_james 16y ago
Not if they are contextual and demand the host script to be in the top level document. (and this is against the terms of use of many advertising services)
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by al_james 16y ago
Not always possible with all banner networks I am afraid!
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by al_james 16y ago
Ad networks are a particular culprit. For many (banner) ad networks, HTTP requests get bounced around so many servers that it can really slow things down.
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by al_james 16y ago
Now, if only they fix all the other issues on their site. I tried twice at the weekend to make a booking and the whole convoluted process simply did not work (saying there is errors on the form even if there was not etc...).
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by al_james 16y ago
Yeah, I use that. However, once you block someone they are gone until you unblock them. All I want to do if be able to see a newsfeed from my 'top' friends and another from the 'rest'.
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by al_james 16y ago
To me, starring captures enough of the functionality without being a pain to manage. But I see your point.
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by al_james 16y ago
Very ranty article, but has a point. I taught in a Computer Science department for 4 years whilst studying for a PhD. I can honestly say that each year, the quality of the students coming in reduced (lower qualifications, less students with

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