benologist

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   by benologist 14y ago

   Unless you have really specific usage patterns this is not a good idea compared to something like HireFireApp that will tweak your resources based on what you actually need.
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   by benologist 14y ago

   TC is going to get worse, not better. AOL hasn't even gone full retard with them yet, this is all we can expect... Tags: android, android 4.0, android 4.0.4, Android4.0, Android4.0.4, droid razr, droid razr hd, droid razr maxx hd, DroidRaz
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   by benologist 14y ago

   1) bo1024 explicitly agrees neither he nor anybody else will use his internet account for illegal activities 2) an ip address is seen uploading or maybe even downloading the latest Bieber album 3) the ISP's logs show that ip address was ass
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   by benologist 14y ago

   The cost isn't in implementing the detection or writing a nice notice, it's in supporting the people it's for. Removal can be hard, look at Sony's bs with rootkits the other year. Aside from that websites are a terrible way to fix a prob
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   by benologist 14y ago

   ISPs have always had explicit policies about not using their service or facilities to break laws. Your agreement to pay $xx/month for some number of megabits does not and can not and has never superseded the law. ... (d) you (or a subacc
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   by benologist 14y ago

   Why should the NYTimes have to spend their resources and lose their revenue to educate and support people removing that software? That's an expensive cat and mouse game that they shouldn't be forced to play.
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   by benologist 14y ago

   Didn't we just have this discussion? Edit: apparently not, hours ago we discussed "Internet providers to begin warning customers who pirate content" which is of course, different. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4679150
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   by benologist 14y ago

   They hide links all through their articles to junk pages for company and people to inflate their SEO. This article has secret links to: - http://www.businessinsider.com/blackboard/sean-parker - http://www.businessinsider.com/blackboard/
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   by benologist 14y ago

   I'm so glad someone finally posted this on HN. The unique and new viewpoint you bring to this site is invaluable, just like in years gone by when it was pasted almost verbatim all over Digg and Reddit thousands of times. I hope you and man
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    by benologist 14y ago

    I bet it's a lot more frustrating to work at a rag like Business Insider where your mission is to hijack search rankings from companies and people.
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    by benologist 14y ago

    Rewording of http://www.theatlantic.com/sponsored/bank-of-america/archive...
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    by benologist 14y ago

    17 minute old account likes submission by 22 minute old account by long time spammers BGR. - http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=kemper - http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=zacharye - http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id
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    by benologist 14y ago

    That's pretty much what you do with them, you can automate their capacity provisioning (to handle requests) with 3rd party tools like HireFireApp ( http://hirefireapp.com/ ) and then the rest of it is you or they making sure your database a
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    by benologist 14y ago

    Rewording of http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/10/18/iphone-...
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    by benologist 14y ago

    Have you looked at PaaS providers like Heroku? They'll scale to anything you grow to and handle a lot of the scaling issues.
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    by benologist 14y ago

    For comments you have to just type the url, no text or tags. http://google.com/ For submissions you can submit a url or text but not both, and URLs in the text don't get parsed.
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    by benologist 14y ago

    Rewrite of http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1200 written and submitted by one of five Ziff Davis (ExtremeTech.com, Geek.com and PCMag.com) employees that spam HN. Their other employees/accounts include: - http://news.ycombinator.
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    by benologist 14y ago

    It's also an auto-submitter account that is somehow un-banned part of the time: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4441016 ExtremeTech and its parent company Ziff Davis has I think 5 employees submitting on HN excluding whatever inspires
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    by benologist 14y ago

    Rewording of VentureBeat's article. http://venturebeat.com/2012/10/17/more-trouble-for-color-sha...
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    by benologist 14y ago

    Silly article, silly rhetoric.
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    by benologist 14y ago

    Gawker are ridiculous. They've written a few paragraphs rewording the original article and then quoted 1/2 the article to wrap it up: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/oct/15/pacific-ir... Edit: Yay someone fixed it.
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    by benologist 14y ago

    They should be incredibly easy to detect, I assume nobody's looking. http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=jmartellaro http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=digiwizard http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=Semteksam http://n
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    by benologist 14y ago

    By one of macobserver's many spam accounts, no less!
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    by benologist 14y ago

    2,000 reads a second is not the same as tens of thousands of rows being updated or inserted a second. MSSQL is also not the bottleneck, flushing data to it is decoupled from the requests.
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    by benologist 14y ago

    This all started a few years ago on .NET 2.0 originally, the NodeJS rewrite began before the 4.5 beta was even announced.
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    by benologist 14y ago

    I'm still ~50% .NET, the website and a lot of backend processing and maintenance software is staying C# because there's no benefit in shifting that to whatever language like there was with the API server. I have started running some stuff u
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    by benologist 14y ago

    Rewording of Engadget's rewording of The Next Web's translation of http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&...
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    by benologist 14y ago

    Please add a section for films on sale, especially HD ones. It always surprises me that there isn't some definitive "watch this space for bargains" for movies outside iTunes like there is with games.
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    by benologist 14y ago

    Their parent company Ziff Davis has 5 or 6 different accounts they use to spam HN. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4555756
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    by benologist 14y ago

    I've been curious for a long time why Ziff Davis devotes so much attention to spamming HN. And then today it clicked after I saw this story at the top or /r/technology submitted a couple hours after it was popular on HN. HN provides a vect