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SysAdvent: Website Performance Optimization(sysadvent.blogspot.com)
1 points by bobf 16y ago|0 comments
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by bobf 16y ago
Of course. It is important and useful to be a part of society, be conversant with the issues of the day, etc. The author's point seemed to simply be that constantly being conversant with popular culture is capable of becoming a timesink.
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by bobf 16y ago
And how many times would you care to have seen pictures of him, or heard anything about him? Probably zero. So it isn't exactly entirely voluntary, right?
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by bobf 16y ago
Interestingly, Google announced something similar recently -- 'BigQuery' -> https://code.google.com/apis/bigquery/
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by bobf 16y ago
Reddit "breaks news first" for the vast majority of stories, simply by having a much larger userbase. I see HN as being far better filtered though, with higher quality comments and signal/noise ratio.
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by bobf 16y ago
Days seem over before they even begin, and I have nothing to show for myself other than the anxious feeling that I now know just enough to engage in conversations I don’t care about. To me, this was the most striking sentence in the artic
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December 7: Pearl Harbor image collection(history.navy.mil)
2 points by bobf 16y ago|0 comments
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Hooky detectives track corporate absenteeism(sfgate.com)
2 points by bobf 16y ago|0 comments
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by bobf 16y ago
A solid state drive (SSD), if they don't have one already. Prices have become more reasonable and performance gains over traditional drives have become more worthwhile. For example, I recently bought one of the better performing 120GB drive
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by bobf 16y ago
Lowendbox.com is a great way to get cheap VPS service, and anything <$10/mo is hard to complain too harshly about.. but my caveat to using companies from there is to make sure you have decent backups, handle email/DNS somewhere other th
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by bobf 16y ago
The same thing is true on smaller scales as well, for example: 1 day versus 10.
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One Entree Restaurants(nytimes.com)
1 points by bobf 16y ago|0 comments
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by bobf 16y ago
You don't think a kick-ass adwords sales team could generate billions upon billions of revenue for Google?
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by bobf 16y ago
Is "no long term increase in sales" amidst "the worst recession the country has seen" actually as bad as it sounds? Maybe Groupon actually saved them from a decline in sales?
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Which shipping company is kindest to packages(popularmechanics.com)
3 points by bobf 16y ago|0 comments
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The last blacksmith in Hanoi(nytimes.com)
4 points by bobf 16y ago|1 comments
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by bobf 16y ago
So Zediva is pursuing the redbox strategy, except by streaming instead of physical rental.
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Paul Krugman: There Will Be Blood(nytimes.com)
2 points by bobf 16y ago|0 comments
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Body scanner manufacturer accompanies Obama to India(publicintelligence.net)
3 points by bobf 16y ago|0 comments
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Re-entry to US without backscatter or pat-down(noblasters.com)
459 points by bobf 16y ago|179 comments
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by bobf 16y ago
I would strongly recommend you do NOT use OpenX. I used it for a few years, but eventually got fed up with the constant security problems. They do not promptly release patches for known security problems, so after seeing a particularly wide
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by bobf 16y ago
Additionally, things you or I may find easy are often difficult for large quantities of people who would be willing to pay for it. I've recently become more self-aware of this, after seeing lots of examples of successful companies created t
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JQuery Raptor Plugin(zurb.com)
76 points by bobf 16y ago|15 comments
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by bobf 16y ago
It seems interesting that they identify people as moving from historically marrying for "financial stability" towards marrying for love, yet divorce rates have increased. Although it is perhaps slightly counterintuitive, I think it actually
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by bobf 16y ago
There is a big difference in efficiency across people and startup teams, in terms of what they might achieve in <X> amount of time. A solo founder with no experience as an entrepreneur, little technical prowess, and few useful conne
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Crazy Taxi remake launched on PSN(joystiq.com)
2 points by bobf 16y ago|0 comments
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by bobf 16y ago
Granular access controls are nice under certain scenarios, but adding a basic ACL isn't hard. "Can use Splunk" and "Can't use Splunk" is enough control for me at the moment, fortunately.
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by bobf 16y ago
I use Splunk, and am a big fan of everything except the cost. It works well, but it gets very expensive, very quickly when you grow beyond the 500MB/day free limit. I'm basically only collecting very limited usage log type information, beca
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by bobf 16y ago
Jordan is quickly becoming a log guru amongst mortals. Keep an eye on logstash! I'm definitely looking forward to an alternative to Splunk, which is great -- but incredibly expensive at large scale.
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by bobf 16y ago
I sent an email to the address listed in your profile. I'd be happy to help point you in the right direction to resolve your immediate issues, just check your email and shoot me a response.

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