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by blantonl 14y ago
Why is "who funded us" such a prominent theme these days with funding announcements from companies? Especially in this announcement? Back in the day, investment banks put up tombstones in the WSJ (for the big deals) and a minor blip wen
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by blantonl 14y ago
So yet another business gets it's start by only using content from another site(s) via data scraping, and they are upset that their source of content was acquired and shutdown? Cry me a river... This reminds me of the Craigslist/Pad-Mapper
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by blantonl 14y ago
Paypal runs on 80 THOUSAND servers? And it takes hours for me to even get a quarterly transaction log prepared for download? That just boggles the mind....
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by blantonl 14y ago
There are no winners here. Most powerful statement I've seen yet about this issue. Literally no one can walk away and claim "victory" on this issue. The worst part is that 130,000 customers + 2 job holders were impacted by something so i
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by blantonl 14y ago
You live by the sword, you die by the sword. Social media is an incredibly powerful tool - especially when you are good at "it" and you wield influence. Trip up on your own shoelaces and you run tremendous risk of social media backfiring o
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by blantonl 14y ago
What an absolute mess for everyone involved. Sendgrid customers (like me), the guys who joked with each other, the PyCon conference, and Adria.
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by blantonl 14y ago
Granted, this type of journalism is shady, but this certainly doesn't meet the definition of a "pump and dump" scheme.
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by blantonl 14y ago
The 1.5 branch of Haproxy supports SSL termination, and it works quite well.
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by blantonl 14y ago
Sorry about that. No worries. So, are we back on the new server? Or was this too much for one transition :)
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by blantonl 14y ago
Does all of HN run on one single server?
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by blantonl 14y ago
Disclaimer: I have a love hate relationship with Paypal. My organization runs most of our payment processes through Paypal. With that said, some questions: 1) How were you able to process 30k/month through Paypal out of the gate without pro
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Paypal experiencing major outage - Instant Payment Notifications Down(x.com)
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by blantonl 14y ago
In providing customer service for our business, I always keep these two things in mind. * I'll bend over backwards for you, but I won't bend over forwards. * The customer is not always right - we discontinued that policy years ago due to ab
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by blantonl 14y ago
I think PHP (5.x/6x) is still applicable to any developer, new or old, experienced or not. Many of us cut our teeth on PHP's simple scripting concepts, and that shouldn't change. And from what I've seen from past history, it won't. There
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by blantonl 14y ago
Ah, the ubiquitous D engine. I used to clean out model rocket shops of those. Some of the things we put together with the powder from those were... er, fun.
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by blantonl 14y ago
Am I the only one that thinks the name and branding choice is misguided? How is this any different from providing a valued added service for Paypal and naming it FuckPaypal.com?
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by blantonl 14y ago
Not if you are an active and involved parent.
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by blantonl 14y ago
You don't need an iPhone to use Facetime. I have a 6 and 8 yr old and both received iPad minis for Christmas and they have already FaceTimed with their friends and cousins via their new devices. And we are now spending a lot of time educati
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by blantonl 14y ago
Want to learn great infrastructure management tips? Read and digest these post-mortems.... Regardless of who the provider is. There is always one takeaway from these that I can use to better my own infrastructure management activities - ev
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by blantonl 14y ago
I cannot agree enough with this. I spend quite a bit of time every year in Whitefish Montana, and avalanche awareness is a big deal there in the winter time. Back country skiing is akin to skydiving. Significant experience and training is
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by blantonl 14y ago
blantonl, appreciate any insight you can provide - sounds like you've got great control over your environment. From the sounds of it, 100tb.com provides bandwidth @$0.33/megabit. I suspect it is C) - the simple reality is that most Web ho
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by blantonl 14y ago
This is a great writeup and is completely on target for realistic deployments on AWS. We're a big user of AWS (well, relative, but we run about $10K/month in costs through AWS), so I'd like to supplement this outstanding blog post: * I cann
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by blantonl 14y ago
For a second here, I was thinking this was an open source implementation of a decentralized Redis/Memcached store that caches and proxies API queries to the Twitter API - thus possibly presenting an approach to aggregating Twitter API calls
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by blantonl 14y ago
Jacque, interesting concept. I'm curious, is this a simple arbitrage opportunity competing physical shipping rates to bandwidth costs? What happens when bandwidth costs decrease over time?
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by blantonl 14y ago
Exactly, and the OP is getting good feedback.
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by blantonl 14y ago
it is actually worse than that. There is certain type of online customer that will literally click through "Interested->Purchase->Yes->Confirm>Pay>Done" without every really looking at what they purchased or why they di
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by blantonl 14y ago
The existing chargeback process is already enourmously skewed against a merchant from an online transaction perspective. all they have to do is acknowledge they're making a refund or change the customer's mind Well, that means the merchan
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by blantonl 14y ago
You might just consider setting up a dedicated slave MySQL database on a smaller instance in the west region just for the eventuality that you need to spin up a master there. Then you can just snapshot, copy to ephemeral, and go from there
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by blantonl 14y ago
it is reality for my business, on both fronts.
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by blantonl 14y ago
We ended up promoting a slave to master, and moving forward from there. Our master eventually returned to service, and we'll promote him tomorrow after things settle down. Interesting to note that we issued a reboot on our Master and it we

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