aquark

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by aquark 16y ago
Your 16 bit app will be out of luck if you ever install a 64 bit version of windows ... though a 20 year lifespan is pretty decent.
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by aquark 16y ago
There are a couple of older threads on this which are worth reading: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=436523 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=133349 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=198158 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id
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by aquark 16y ago
Don't you mean 16us?
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by aquark 16y ago
Looks like a great implementation. Maybe have a couple of demos on a landing page that use something other that the placeholder text. If you do get any traction though you might attract the attention of the copyright holders the videos are
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by aquark 16y ago
Interesting -- I've been a happy site5 customer for years, though I've never needed much customer service. Still good to know you are looking to draw from the right pools.
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by aquark 16y ago
I'm looking at doing something similar. I'm planning on providing beta users a significant free period beyond when I start charging, ie. a whole free year. The incremental cost is relatively small and the goodwill seems worthwhile. I don't
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by aquark 16y ago
It would be interesting to see some data on fraud rates in different industries. It is easier to see the thief's risk/reward proposition when ordering a large screen TV with a stolen card than then signing up for a $50\month service. There
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by aquark 16y ago
What if you break it down into $\hour. If you are reading for entertainment and a $10 book that 4 hours to read, that is only $2.50\hour. Seems like good value. If it isn't for entertainment and you aren't deriving (syay) $10\hour of value
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by aquark 16y ago
Interesting idea. The slideshow on the front page changes too quickly once you get to the results pages. It is hard to see what is returned since it is only up there a few seconds. How about providing a text box to allow the engine to be t
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by aquark 16y ago
At least they had unit tests for the material. Imagine if they only way to test was to run a whole system test.
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by aquark 16y ago
In your pricing slide you have 'monthly' spelled as 'mothly' And as a minor preference thing having the slides scroll downwards looked wrong ... maybe upwards or sideways would look better.
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by aquark 16y ago
Another common example would be airport check-in. You have economy and first-class. Often the first-class line is empty - do you let 'the rabble' check-in there and risk a first class passenger having to (gasp) wait a couple of minutes beh
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by aquark 16y ago
I've seen the two level queue in use at some airports for security and immigration. But they do have a person splitting the head of the long queue into the short queues immediately in front of each x-ray machine/agent. It works pretty well
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by aquark 16y ago
I am working on a full release of http://CharityAuctionOrganizer.com A little removed from the tech-centric mainstream, but it provides a web based tool for managing fund raising auctions. The site is live and functional now, with a full
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by aquark 16y ago
Be careful of the rabbit hole - once you go down there is no knowing where to stop (and no end of what it can cost!) Seriously though, it is a fun if somewhat pricey hobby to get into. There is an active community at cocoontech.com and a nu
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by aquark 16y ago
Is this looking just through a known list of exploits for popular packages/libraries, or is it doing something find holes in my application code? I'd certainly be interested in the later, and even just hearing how you go about that.
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by aquark 16y ago
A simple validation of ownership would be something like google uses for the google apps for domains: generate a unique id and ask them to create a file of that name on the domain. As a secondary check ask for something to be created in th
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by aquark 16y ago
I've used it for some small scale distributed business apps. Latency isn't really a concern and the usage pretty much fits into the 'free' tier. It saves having to worry about any other infrastructure -- these are desktop apps that need to
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by aquark 16y ago
I understand the security argument about not giving out more information than you absolutely need to. But, I hate 'low-risk' sites that do this when I'm not sure of my username/password. If I can't remember what username I used 6 months ag
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by aquark 16y ago
The app is well executed, looks create and has a good UI (well, except for the alert box when you update your profile). However, I agree it is a little to MVP. To be useful I need more control over what is displayed in the bar ... and I pr
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by aquark 16y ago
I can see EC2 gets expensive for larger instances, but the micro instances make the economics more favourable. FWIW this is a low bandwidth app as well. For testing I can spin the server up and down as I need and literally pay per-hour (+ t
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Ask HN: Best practices for small web app in the cloud
12 points by aquark 16y ago|5 comments
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by aquark 16y ago
You can use the sysinternals junction tool on earlier OS's: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896768.asp...
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by aquark 16y ago
I must be getting old, but there was an accessibility in those systems that is hard to replicate today. I have fond memories many hours spent typing in game listing from a magazine ... and learning that you should always type 'save' before
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by aquark 16y ago
Maybe not, but that is still 384MB\s sustained write speed to your disk which is 22GB\minute so you'd need a 2TB disk for the average movie. Maybe in a couple of years when 2TB SSDs are cheaply available...
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by aquark 16y ago
To be picky, my understanding is even if this worked it isn't a 'perfect' copy of the source -- you would be getting a raw uncompressed HD video stream, which is great, but would need to be recompressed to be manageable. You are not getting
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by aquark 16y ago
You can't yet snapshot the disk images in all (most?) of the Rackspace data centers to their storage cloud. You can with the ec2 micro instances. Suppose to be coming real-soon-now though.
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by aquark 16y ago
Agreed -- my filing system became so much easier when I realized that reads were rare. Just bucket (well, box) by a suitable parameter, typically date, and you're done.
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by aquark 16y ago
Cool editor -- definitely consider making it licensable. A minor quibble: when I create a table it would be nice if 'tab' moved between cells as in Word/Excel rather than adding a tab within the cell.
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by aquark 16y ago
Why not just accept the GA id in the settings page and inject the code at the right place yourselves? Though simple in-house page view stats would probably work better for 99% of your target audience than having to sign up for GA.

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