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by blantonl 11y ago
What is a use case where GlusterFS really shines?
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by blantonl 11y ago
reposting/finding/sharing/curating content You mean, stealing content from others, right?
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by blantonl 11y ago
Spot On. I run an online media streaming site for public safety communications, and we've noticed that Adsense advertisers often use these exact social engineering techniques to display download/play links that end up having cus
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by blantonl 11y ago
Any advantages to using this over a blended haproxy / varnish setup?
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by blantonl 11y ago
Nipples
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by blantonl 11y ago
I think one important issue is how these managers, who's roles and titles were diminished with this holacracy approach, will sell themselves as managers in future roles outside of Zappos. These days no one really envisions working for
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by blantonl 11y ago
I don't get it.. The name that is.
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by blantonl 11y ago
This is where grey-bearded consultants make their bank....
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by blantonl 11y ago
Good point - but there is potential incoming revenue to pay for that. In this very remote use case, I doubt CAD (Computer Aided Dispatch) vendors are going to write this use case into their development plans. Unless they saw this on HN...
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by blantonl 11y ago
The worst kept secret in Silicon Valley .... I would argue this is the best kept secret , because this flush out needs to occur to wash away all the so called disrupters who, as you put, are really just shuffling piles of money around ins
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by blantonl 11y ago
I tend to be skeptical at times. A 400m valuation for a local anonymous chat application? Yup, I'm skeptical. Actually, I think it is ridiculous.
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by blantonl 11y ago
Scaling an anonymous social network targeted to high schoolers... I shudder at the thought of the minefields you would be required to navigate. * Privacy * Bullying * Under age pornography Facebook, Instagram, Snapshat etc all struggle with
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by blantonl 11y ago
Sorry, but if we just look at the Google Maps API as an example, it would be a HUGE stretch to consider them a common carrier. The mapping data industry has huge competition right now. We're not even in the same realm of consideratio
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by blantonl 11y ago
Why is any other business obligated to help you invest in building your own business? Obviously, Google and others who have innovated in the space can set the terms of service as onerous or ambiguous as they want to. You can choose whether
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by blantonl 11y ago
Today I learned that there are tens of thousands of people all who "help people realize their value and potential...."
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by blantonl 11y ago
One important approach this article is missing is the fact that there are thousands of quiet, successful, single owner companies that have found a niche and don't aspire to change the world, and they still bring in hundreds of thousand
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by blantonl 11y ago
I did the exact same thing - took apart a camera and noticed the flash capacitor had a shock warning writing right on it, so I thought to myself "I better discharge this before it shocks me." I figured shorting it out using a scr
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by blantonl 11y ago
0.005 GB is a competitive price until you bake in the total cost of ownership. In this case, it still makes better sense for us to use Google's Cloud Storage offerings for our 100TB of mp3 file storage since sending all those files re
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by blantonl 11y ago
The cloud environment is becoming a "wild wild west" just like the app stores were a few years ago. It all has to do with how much money is being made in those markets. Maybe this is the result of AWS finally breaking out their
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by blantonl 11y ago
I don't mean this to sound condescending, but you have a lot to learn about software licensing. There are many software packages that are licensed to an individual peice of hardware. Tied to that are USB authentication dongles, and eve
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by blantonl 11y ago
How was this vulnerability able to be exposed in the first place if the API is communicating over SSL?
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by blantonl 11y ago
Exactly. And why should it matter anyways who posted the article here on HN? The community here decides what is or is not worthy of discussion, not any single company.
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by blantonl 11y ago
If you convert BTC to $$ or your local currency, expect a tax situation.
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by blantonl 11y ago
Yes, and you also have to manage a team (even if that is yourself) to monetize your ad traffic. There is no way to scale running your own internal ad network unless you have scores of folks to manage the marketing of your property, the mana
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by blantonl 11y ago
Why do people feel they are entitled to perpetual API access? If you want to build your business on the back of someone else who is doing the heavy lifting, then don't be surprised when they rear up and no longer let you ride. Maybe Tw
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by blantonl 11y ago
And this is exactly how it should be. If you want to build your business on the back of someone else who is doing the heavy lifting, then don't be surprised when they rear up and no longer let you ride. I still don't understand w
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by blantonl 11y ago
My understanding is that OTA HDTV is actaully uncompressed, which means you get the best HDTV picture quality when receiving over the air. Cable, uVerse, DirecTV etc all compress their HDTV signals resulting in far more artifacts and pixeli
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by blantonl 11y ago
APIs are great when you want to drive numbers to your business, but at the end of the day, if you want to generate revenue, you either charge for API access or you closely control your ecosystem. Unfettered Twitter API access would be analo
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by blantonl 11y ago
True. But where is the focus on making money?
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by blantonl 11y ago
Cloudfront works with dynamic content and acts much like Varnish does in those scenarios.

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