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by aquark 15y ago
I'd like to see Amazon offer some new services to improve working across multiple regions. Just being able to copy an EBS volume and AMI to a different region with a single API call would help a lot of people quickly establish much better r
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by aquark 15y ago
You can ... sort of. Amazon offer dedicated instances: http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2011/03/amazon-ec2-dedicated-inst... Just rather than supplying the hardware you have to rent it from Amazon. Would be interesting to know how these instan
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by aquark 15y ago
Are defined benefit pensions common anywhere outside of the public sector anymore in Europe? They weren't on offer for (smaller) private companies when I was in the UK 10 years ago.
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by aquark 15y ago
I like the concept, but the basic plan has me confused. I signed up, clicked around a bit, looked at a number of reports and now every stock I click on reports 'You have analyzed 10 stocks, which is the limit for Vuru Basic' ... even stocks
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by aquark 16y ago
I use SES (from C#) and it integrated very painlessly and seems to work flawlessly. Between EC2/S3/Cloudfront/SES Amazon offers a very compelling suite of products that no-one else has replicated. Sure they may not be absolutely the best a
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by aquark 16y ago
Thank you for sharing such an honest look at how things are going. I'm have a side project that deals with organizing events, and as such also has some awkward failure modes. Many customers leave preparations until the last minute, and so
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by aquark 16y ago
Just adding some javascript that just made sure the right ads are showing would have been a much more subtle response. I wonder if there is a possibility of a JS library that could detect this type of scraping and reserving automatically.
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by aquark 16y ago
I've been running the AeroFS beta for a couple of weeks and am very happy with it. Nothing high volume or stressful, but it has done what it said it would quickly and efficiently, and the client even worked behind the moderately aggressive
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by aquark 16y ago
The marginal cost per license may be cheap, but there may be a significant support overhead to a flood of new users. Maybe with technical web apps that AppSumo tends to focus on this is less of an issue. I've found a certain portion of non
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by aquark 16y ago
Interesting -- I am much more likely to read the Wikipedia page for a language I don't know than one I do. Not sure how to interpret the stats in that case.
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by aquark 16y ago
Interesting concept -- how do you deal with the legalities? If I buy something am I buying it from you or from the original owner? How long do you hold onto the funds to deal with any potential chargebacks?
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by aquark 16y ago
IANAL either ... but directors of companies do have legal responsibilities, and is it possible that the authorities could choose to purse the directors for failing to fulfil those responsibilities. In the UK at least I believe you can be pr
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by aquark 16y ago
What do you do for international payments?
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by aquark 16y ago
Conventional wisdom says that complete code rewrites are almost always a bad idea. Joel has some great essays on this from several years back. Developers that have not tackled a big rewrite tend to believe they are the exception to this ru
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by aquark 16y ago
If the comment was purely on the technical merits of the API for programming then I don't think this is a factor. But presumably it is at least part of the reason id have stuck with OpenGL and not switched to the 'better' API
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by aquark 16y ago
Cover letters are a great way to stand out from the crowd. Most resumes I see don't have them, and a good portion of those that do have a generic 'I want to work for <insert_company_name> and I'm sure I'm a good fit' boiler plate. G
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by aquark 16y ago
Great implementation! Obvious UI, works fast presents the information in a very clean and clear format. The blog & academy pages could do with some of the polish of the main site, but that is understandable! I also wasn't totally clear
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by aquark 16y ago
I know the conventional wisdom here would be to release early. But beware the distraction that can be -- you suddenly need to find some extra time to worry about keeping the server up, responding to feedback, etc. If you really feel there
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by aquark 16y ago
> Tests are an investment, but once you've done them, every > time you run them from that point on is free. True, but they have their own maintenance cost. When features evolve in the future you have to pay to update the tests a
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by aquark 16y ago
Whatever font is being used/requested for the headings looks awful on Chrome under Windows 7 on my box. Looks like all anti-aliasing is missing. The general layout of the site looks good, if a little busy, but the font issue really detract
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by aquark 16y ago
I'm not sure this is a raw data blip, since it seems to change based on the zoom level. 19C appears to be the historical high for that day, but is sometimes included in the band indicating the actual range.
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by aquark 16y ago
Wow -- this is great. Canadians love to talk about the weather and this provides endless conversation topics! Looking at the recent data for Ottawa, ON there appears to be a glitch on Jan 17, 2011. When zooming in and out the high line ju
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by aquark 16y ago
If you don't want to do the work yourself you can also buy pre-made ones: http://www.etsy.com/shop/vintagecovers
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Ask HN: Is screencast.com down / best way to host screencasts?
1 points by aquark 16y ago|0 comments
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by aquark 16y ago
And lock down the OS as much as possible. It will be bad enough supporting genuine issues, dealing with 'your laptop doesn't run XYZ' would be even worse.
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by aquark 16y ago
I don't really get the 150x bit: "Since our servers can encode video much faster than most of your users can upload it, this means there is literally no more delay between the end of the upload and the video finishing encoding. In the scree
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by aquark 16y ago
Looks great -- a couple of points. I agree the front page is too busy. I think the screenshot is somewhat confusing -- am I looking at the customer facing website or the backend. The videos being hosted on blogspot falls foul of our over z
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by aquark 16y ago
The cashier doesn't add any value to your transaction -- he is just there is ensure the store gets your money. I am willing to pay the sticker price for the groceries I pull off the shelf, not the cashier's skill in ringing them up.
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by aquark 16y ago
I hadn't realized this before. How is this type of thing structured in the merchant's agreement with the card processor? Could they in theory issue a 100% cash back card that the merchant gets charged 100% on? How is the merchant supposed
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by aquark 16y ago
Amazon do not sell ebooks equally everywhere. I often follow a link to a book from a blog or the like only to be told the Kindle version 'is not available in my region' (Canada).

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