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by bgentry 14y ago
I would also be interested in a longer, elaborated answer.
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by bgentry 14y ago
Don't be a dick. Not every person at a company is responsible for or can even help with these kinds of issues. Having more than 2 or 3 people working on it is counter-productive.
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by bgentry 14y ago
Wow. I have to admit that I didn't expect to see anything like this from them for at least a couple more years. We'll see how long it takes to bring it to the US though. I'd guess that their cable co ties are too strong here to do it anytim
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by bgentry 14y ago
There are virtually no fixed costs to actually performing the transactions. The fees are levied by the not-so-competitive Visa/Mastercard/AMEX trio that would love to keep their fees artificially high.
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by bgentry 14y ago
Actually, I remember reading somewhere that the Hubble was in fact pointed at the Lunar landing sites at one point, but that even its resolution was too low to produce any conclusive images of the landing sites.
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by bgentry 14y ago
Works great. This way you don't have to send all your traffic through the VPN, only the requests that are used to geolocate you. You can use the same method to bypass MLB.tv blackout restrictions. Instead of a Linode box, I use a privatetun
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by bgentry 14y ago
But not the host's name. A direct link to the host from a high traffic site for everyone to see? Not cool. I linked to the host's page because it shows at least some proof that this story is true. There is an auto-generated comment at the
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My first Airbnb experience(bgentry.posterous.com)
1 points by bgentry 14y ago|2 comments
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by bgentry 14y ago
Nobody's site went down. This was a development issue that only affected certain aspects of the API: https://status.heroku.com/incidents/399
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by bgentry 14y ago
Just adding up the numbers is 487 minutes out of 43200 minutes in June, or 98.87% uptime. The number of minutes an issue was being tracked on our status site is not the same as the number of minutes things were actually broken. Also, very
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by bgentry 14y ago
San Francisco, CA Heroku is hiring. * CISO (Chief Information Security Officer) * Senior Erlang Infrastructure Developer * Routing Infrastructure Developer * Platform Infrastructure Developer * Billing Software Engineer * Data Infrastructur
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by bgentry 14y ago
would those be managed at that price? because it's a hell of a lot more expensive when you factor in the cost of devops to make sure it stays working and fails over properly.
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by bgentry 14y ago
The ethernet port takes up 100% of the edge thickness of the previous generation 15" MBP. Also, I'd guess that something like ~5% of users take advantage of it on a regular basis. So why would Apple let that keep them from making the device
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by bgentry 14y ago
I don't respect their decision, I respect their right to make a decision. I have no qualms with obtaining their content through other means if they refuse to let me pay for it.
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by bgentry 14y ago
He said they feel justified. That's different from saying they are justified.
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by bgentry 14y ago
No, my few hundred does not "lose them millions". Their relationship with cable companies is very profitable for both sides, and I find it unlikely that the cable companies would want to simply end it outright. Also, in addition to a few hu
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by bgentry 14y ago
It's cool, they don't want my money so they won't get it. I'll keep getting their stuff from Usenet for free.
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by bgentry 14y ago
TL;DR: Apple removed Airfoil Speakers Touch because of its ability to receive audio from iTunes and iOS. In order to achieve this functionality, Rogue Amoeba had to use the leaked AirPlay private key, and Apple objected to this specific fun
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7,073 Users Can Be Wrong (Airfoil Speakers Touch back in App Store)(rogueamoeba.com)
5 points by bgentry 14y ago|2 comments
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by bgentry 14y ago
From TFA: It failed to convey that the whole purpose of having a microscope is to see things that you can’t see with the naked eye. Umm, the 2nd sentence in the all-caps introduction: BY PRODUCING A MAGNIFIED IMAGE, THE MICROSCOPE REVEAL
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by bgentry 14y ago
Groklaw version: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4050490 / http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120531172522459 I flagged this version in favor of groklaw's because TFA is very unclear and misleading.
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by bgentry 14y ago
It's not baseless speculation. There is no other reason for the app to have been pulled, and a similar app has been pulled for the same reason.
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by bgentry 14y ago
Wow, is this really what bills in the Netherlands look like? 500 words, half a page? How do we get our govt to stop churning out multi-thousand page piles of pork-barreling instead of simple, straightforward resolutions like this?
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by bgentry 14y ago
No mention of the leaked AirPlay private key that they're using to emulate an authorized AirPlay receiver. Very disingenuous on their part to pretend that they have no idea why Apple has pulled the app. At the very least they can acknowledg
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by bgentry 14y ago
You may be confusing the G1 with the Nexus One: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nexus_One
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by bgentry 14y ago
Stockton hasn't had high real estate prices since 2008 when their market crashed harder than anywhere else in the country.
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by bgentry 14y ago
This is the Dot.com era all over again The "dot-dot-com" era?
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by bgentry 14y ago
In meetings with industry representatives, the White House, and U.S. senators, senior FBI officials argue the dramatic shift in communication from the telephone system to the Internet has made it far more difficult for agents to wiretap Am
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by bgentry 14y ago
Cliché: shameless use of Twitter Bootstrap for home page with minimal customization
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Dr. Robert Lustig: Sugar - A Sweet Addiction(uctv.tv)
2 points by bgentry 14y ago|0 comments

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