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by blantonl 13y ago
In our case, the vast majority of the data is not ever served up and is removed via lifecycle rules. However, just the fact that we have the data serves a number of our customer's use cases.
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by blantonl 13y ago
The Google Storage pricing of $0.026/GB (or $0.020/GB for reduced durability) made my jaw drop. I spend over $6k/month on Amazon S3, and this pricing from Google has me flabbergasted. Our architecture just uses S3 as a plugg
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by blantonl 13y ago
Flightradar24 works on the premise of volunteers providing ground stations to decode ADS-B transmissions from the aircraft. Two variables here: 1) ADS-B Transmissions are line of sight, so once you are far enough off shore there are no grou
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by blantonl 13y ago
I own and operate http://www.radioreference.com and http://www.broadcastify.com . I do all the development, business management, and support. I have a team of community volunteers that do a lot of day to day moderati
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by blantonl 13y ago
Carl Icahn's "request" to spin Paypal out of Ebay is probably looking better with this announcement. Paypal really needs a new leadership team that promotes innovation. Stripe is cleaning up, and I'm about to take a lot
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by blantonl 13y ago
In this case, this is like asking how you would monetize TCP. This specification is a transport protocol and could apply to multiple use cases, not including video.
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by blantonl 13y ago
There is the old wall street saying - "The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent."
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by blantonl 13y ago
He really did: https://blockchain.info/address/1HbNxRhrv5Jocr7Q9ZqbbqCwuNNy... So far, no such honor has been extended from the OP: https://blockchain.info/address/1JEGu8qiaKbLgheAWCjRkeZNyEqh...
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by blantonl 13y ago
Here is why. I like to equate the technical community with the skiing community. The barriers to entry are tough. It takes a lot of practice to become good skier, and many that do become expert skiers instantly elevate themselves above the
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by blantonl 13y ago
>> It seems like we should be able to measure whatever effect there was. Against what litmus test? All the players (Apple, Google, Intuit, etc) were blazing new trails in a whole new economic model - and localized to an economy in the
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by blantonl 13y ago
You cannot even cancel an auto-renew for a single domain without having to call into a call center, sit on hold, and then go through the various levels of scripts that drones read to you. It is clearly designed to bill you to death.
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by blantonl 13y ago
I think I have over 150 domains with Network Solutions and I stay with them only out of convenience. But each time I register a new domain name, I swear I am about to sign up for a bunch of crap that I don't need - their registration w
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by blantonl 13y ago
I'm curious how this compares to the amount of searches on Google's platform. 1 billion searches in 2013 sounds like a huge number, but placing that into context might be a better way to announce this.
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by blantonl 13y ago
Before anyone grabs their pitchforks and condemns ad-retargetng, the question has to be asked. How much did the OP pay to use Facebook as a social platform? With that said... There is nothing nefarious here. This is standard internet marke
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by blantonl 13y ago
Won't this process become much more expensive over time, thus invalidating the attack vector?
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by blantonl 13y ago
Bitcoin is not an official currency in the eyes of the law. Therefore, there are almost zero regulations that would apply to Bitcoin transactions, other than contract law.
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by blantonl 13y ago
I see crawlers as enablers - I've even gone so far as spinning up a dedicated server instance to serve content to the bots - so they get good response times which increases relevancy in search results.
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Ask HN: healthcare.gov architecture
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by blantonl 13y ago
I concur. You've got to wonder whether or not the trade off between denying the edge-cases outweighs the benefits of "better" validation.
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by blantonl 13y ago
this API's obvious intentions say it should also provide a non-trivial bump in conversions to Mailgun paying subscribers.
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by blantonl 13y ago
Tom Clancy's Threat Vector comes to mind....
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by blantonl 13y ago
Ben, first, you are NOT in over your head, you are simply questioning whether or not to grow your company to some preceived "next level" by looking for funding to take on major players in your field. Why not continue to innovate y
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by blantonl 13y ago
I think his reasoning is a great way to get fired, regardless of how smart you are technically. It is fun to think about how you could rage against the machine and do things your way. But the simple reality is there is always someone smart
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by blantonl 13y ago
This is an example of a "real world" exit - where tangible products and commoditized software intersected with a knowledgable buyer.
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by blantonl 13y ago
Does anyone know the status of PHP drivers for RethinkDB? I'm surprised there aren't official drivers out yet.
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by blantonl 13y ago
NSA Recruiting sessions are staffed by NSA recruiters - i.e. sales people. There might be the token engineer on hand to answer in very generic terms about technology etc, but to think that any questions would be met with useful responses i
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by blantonl 13y ago
Government contractors with active security clearances command far more than 70k-100K - an active TS/SCI clearance can take over a year to process - and the number of hurdles to clear is daunting for the average person. An enlisted E-7
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by blantonl 13y ago
Keep in mind that those slides were almost certainly developed by a contractor. Who was paid 150K/year. Who was one of thousands of other similar contractors. With little to no real world experience.
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by blantonl 13y ago
Dropbox coming soon? Dropbox better come out ASAP with a formal response to this. But honestly, it might not even matter because if the NSA has targeted Dropbox, any betting man would say that it is already part of the problem. Ugh...
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by blantonl 13y ago
wow, thank you for that. That just made my use of tmux that much easier!

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