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by axod 16y ago
Isn't Heroku supposed to auto-scale EC2? So we have Heroscale autoscaling Heroku which autoscales EC2?? Am I missing something?
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by axod 16y ago
I get a bad ssl cert warning.
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by axod 16y ago
Sure. I was talking about Reddit the business rather than the founders. It's clear these days you barely need a company or business model to be able to cash out as a founder if you get lucky or know the right people.
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by axod 16y ago
Paypal probably has to cope with millions of $ worth of fraud a day. The fact one or two false positives crop up from time to time isn't surprising. The terms of service clearly state that sites of a sexual nature are not accepted.
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by axod 16y ago
Until Reddit posts a decent profit it's not clear either of them really 'won' is it? Digg tried to monetize and drove away their users. I'm not sure Reddit has really tried to monetize as much yet apart from their 'donate' thing.
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by axod 16y ago
Totally agree. And similarly (especially with the rapid growth of chrome) I think mozilla is pretty vulnerable.
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by axod 16y ago
Really sad to see this idea, and even more to see it upvoted. It's obvious the account wasn't shutdown due to 'gay rights'. This is like an incompetent woman who was sacked suing for sexual discrimination.
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by axod 16y ago
> "Volume is hardly a good metric for valuation." Right. Fashion is. This is a 'twitter is fashionable' valuation.
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by axod 16y ago
Twitter has like 2 strategic 'customers' hasn't it? That seems like a really risky revenue stream to me, if you can even call it that.
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by axod 16y ago
Is it obvious that one (public) is more monetizable than the other (private)? Facebook is hugely profitable, but its messages are private...
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by axod 16y ago
It's about as popular as ICQ in terms of volume of communication. Do you think ICQ is worth $10B?
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by axod 16y ago
Lots of things compete with twitter (and beat it by miles). Instant messaging apps - AIM etc do far higher volume of messages. IRC does. Facebook does. Sure, it's not apples for apples identical, but can you imagine ICQ being valued at th
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by axod 16y ago
Does the dock have a hinge, trackpad and speakers? Maybe a large battery as well? The hinge is a deal breaker.
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by axod 16y ago
The hinge is kinda useful to angle the display.
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by axod 16y ago
If I wasn't a programmer, I'd only use the web.
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by axod 16y ago
It still makes an absolute ton of sense for people who only use the web. The browser on android is OK, but it's nowhere near Chrome afaics. I believe ChromeOS is going after the non-techy market of people who don't care about all the bell
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by axod 16y ago
Are tablets huge, or are touchscreens huge? To know, we need some decent laptops with touchscreens. It seems like the best of both worlds will clearly be a tablet that docks to the bottom half of a laptop - so we get a laptop with a tablet
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by axod 16y ago
> " "Argument" to you is disagreement with Thomas Ptacek, who time and time again bizarrely gets upvoted without merit or regard for accuracy." Found in the code of most HNers brains: if (poster=="tptacek" && subject=="secur
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by axod 16y ago
> "Netty is not the problem. Java NIO has that limitation." As I say, I'd be interested in numbers to back that up. It's certainly not a limitation I've noticed.
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by axod 16y ago
I have implemented it. It works well. You don't have to be the smartest person in the world to not screw up elementary programming problems. Mibbit handles a few million users without issue on a few VPSes. Erlang "doing it for me" isn't g
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by axod 16y ago
I'd personally start by not using Netty if you have the time to start from scratch :/
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by axod 16y ago
Definitely! Lump all my logins into a single point of failure, so that if something is compromized, everything is!!! Awesome idea. :/
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by axod 16y ago
I'd do some more in depth checks. I find it very hard to believe you're cpu bound within NIO itself. I do around 1k req/s per cpu and never see load avg above 0.5 >> "re-establish their connection back to the servers each time the
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by axod 16y ago
> "which in case of evented framework will be heavily underutilized." I'm not following your logic here. If something doesn't need 16 CPUs, why is splitting it over 16 cores a good idea? You're going to be adding a lot of inefficiency
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by axod 16y ago
I'm not sure what your point here is. Facebook chat doesn't use CPU. Why would it need 16 cores? It's more than likely IO bound. It's just moving boring data around. If you're using serious CPU power to write a chat backend, you're doing so
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by axod 16y ago
I don't think that's the case. Facebook are the ones with 10,000 servers (probably a lot more now idk). Some people are often too quick to try and emulate people/products by picking out some magical quality, using it, and expecting identica
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by axod 16y ago
You could write facebook chat in pretty much any half decent language. The question is how competent the developers are rather than what tool they decide to use. It's not rocket science, it's mainly plumbing - moving data around.
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by axod 16y ago
> "...was that people would switch from truly excellent JavaScript libraries like jQuery to Closure on the strength of the Google name." This is ridiculous. Does not the mere fact that jquery keep announcing 4000% speedups with every ne
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by axod 16y ago
http://axod.net/arraytest.html After 20 iterations: Browser Pre-alloc No pre-alloc Firefox 3.6.13 OSX 824ms 829ms Safari 5.0.3 OSX 812ms 948ms Chrome 9.0.597.16 OSX 1317ms
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by axod 16y ago
I watch movies and TV comedies while I code often. If not, I usually have music TV on. Working from home rocks.

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