andrewf

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by andrewf 14y ago
If you turn on file versioning in S3, then you'll be able to get to the data that was "overwritten". I don't think there's a way for someone with only PUT access to work around this.
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by andrewf 14y ago
Is there a way for me to get access to a machine like this if I want to see how well my code runs? If I want to benchmark some code on a crazy i7, I can just fire up an instance on EC2 for a couple of hours. I'm not aware of anything like t
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by andrewf 14y ago
The "PNG crunch" programs out there - eg OptiPNG - actually do a bit more work. They'll try palette-ising a truecolor image, applying all the PNG filters ( http://www.w3.org/TR/PNG-Filters.html ), etc. They also tend to use forked versions
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by andrewf 14y ago
Yeah but the point here is to produce a .gz file which is compatible with standard tools like gunzip, PNG decoders, your browser's handling of "Content-Encoding: gzip", etc. If you control the compressor and decompressor then applying new t
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by andrewf 14y ago
See also Joe Haldeman's "Forever Peace".
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by andrewf 14y ago
http://blog.programmableweb.com/2010/10/19/the-twitter-id-sh...
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by andrewf 14y ago
Lots of Australian ISPs route to Asia via the US. So it's a coinflip as to whether any particular customer will see much better pings, or much worse pings, if you host in Singapore/Tokyo.
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by andrewf 14y ago
EDIT: Awww.. Rackspace's support chat person tells me they don't do cloud hosting in Australia. The cloud links on rackspace.com.au subtly point to the US site and US pricing. And the only way to get their non-cloud pricing for AU is for a
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by andrewf 14y ago
Looks like about a 30% price premium over EC2 instances in North America. 60% for traffic. Which isn't so bad at all compared with other local options. I think this will become the default hosting choice for a lot of Aussies. IMO nobody's c
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by andrewf 14y ago
I can think of many things that could qualify at "internal tools." The question is broad and the answers depend on what your business is, who works there, and what they do (yourself included!) Possible "internal tools" that come to mind are
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by andrewf 14y ago
Question for HNers from NYC: when would be a good time to visit? I was planning to spend November there (hostels and/or airbnb) but put that off when the hurricane hit. All the official tourism sites are saying "business as usual" but that
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by andrewf 14y ago
The Tokyo DC isn't a universal win for Australia. The results are actually pretty bimodal depending on your ISP. From Perth, iiNet routes directly to Asia, and it's a big win. But Amnet routes AU -> US -> Asia and it's a big loss. I
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by andrewf 14y ago
From memory, "things" / entities aren't visible on the map by default, but toggle keys and/or cheat codes can make more stuff visible. Projectiles (from the rocket launcher, plasma gun, and BFG9000) will fly around. You can't see the projec
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by andrewf 14y ago
A few months ago I wanted to buy 1000 Microsoft Lifecam Cinema HD webcams. I'll bite. Why? :)
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by andrewf 14y ago
But you should Google afterwards so you can feel like a right ponce for confusing Big-Theta and Big-O.
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by andrewf 14y ago
Storylane appears to be a hosted blogging platform that doesn't offer RSS feeds. Not sure if they're just desperate to get people joined up, or RSS is actually dead.
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by andrewf 14y ago
Windows 7 32-bit (not 64-bit) still includes the DOS API implementation descended from the original in Windows NT. Open up cmd.exe. Now run "edit". That's a 16-bit DOS program. You won't be able to find it in the Windows task manager - it's
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by andrewf 14y ago
(Not sure exactly what WinRAR does, but generally speaking for a compressor..) Backwards compatibility. Let's say you're putting together WinRAR 4.5 and have a fancy new compression method you want to implement. .RAR files generated with Ve
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by andrewf 14y ago
But the book will probably cost more and (more importantly, assuming "people respond better when they'll get a physical gift" is the reason for offering the USB stick) the book won't be ready until late 2014. It would be nice if he could of
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by andrewf 14y ago
The same thing jumped out at me. Probably because of the months I spent in 2004, staring at the combined desktop + Palm OS databases helpful customers had emailed in, wondering how things had gotten to their present state. We controlled the
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by andrewf 14y ago
If you can't ship an MS-DOS "format /S" image, there are several DOS clones available under open source licenses (freedos, rxdos, ...) and lots of proprietary ones targeted at the embedded market too (rom-dos, pts-dos, dr-dos, ...). You mig
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by andrewf 14y ago
IMO, if conversion rates are a concern, the need to download a separate runtime first makes Java, newer versions of .NET, etc non-starters. Note that Adobe AIR doesn't require this anymore: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/air/articles/air3-ins
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by andrewf 14y ago
Leave more than one screenful of scrollback in the buffer after your program exits, like a well-behaved command-line app should. If you hate this, you can tweak your terminal definition so curses apps don't do it. http://fixlog.blogspot.
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by andrewf 14y ago
What I want to know is - why are they so much more expensive than linode(for example). Hosting prices in Australia are all super-expensive.
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by andrewf 14y ago
My unqualified guess: something to do with the Sun386i, an x86 Sun workstation which ran a port of SunOS and could virtualise MS-DOS. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun386i
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by andrewf 14y ago
The list of <supply count> <thing to build> is pretty standard and a lot of people find it easier to follow when playing, than a fancier layout. But there are also those who hate the format :) Might be best to poll the targe
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by andrewf 14y ago
A connection is uniquely identified by (IP #1, Port #1) and (IP #2, Port #2). You can have 65535 connections (in theory) from a single client to your port 80. And another 65535 from a different client to port 80 on the same server. If you'r
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by andrewf 14y ago
I'm thinking of the build order - a list of things built, and the supply at which they were built - like the one in the comment at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQe6UqvCOT4 Something like http://code.google.com/p/phpsc2replay/ will get
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by andrewf 14y ago
You didn't miss anything. I just think it would be a kick-ass feature.
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by andrewf 14y ago
As I understand it, all of the "create a build order from the replay" sites/tools out there suffer inaccuracy because a replay file is just a list of input actions. There's no distinguishing between building a probe, queueing a probe, not h

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