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by boyter 11y ago
True. But if someone is asking to pay to take away the pain the probably do value some of those things, hence paying for some install and forget service.
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by boyter 11y ago
It depends on if you ever need to recreate it. I was checking my ability to spin up a thumbor instance a few months after deploying it only to discover that it was not possible using the deployment scripts I had even with frozen pip require
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by boyter 11y ago
Sure. For the record the Thumbor cluster I was working on needed to have 100% uptime and be configured to mitigate any potentially DDoS situation even if the secret key was leaked. It also needed facial detection and GIF (animation) resizin
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by boyter 11y ago
Sounds good till you get to maintenance and scaling. Thumbor isn't as install and forget if you value being able to recreate the environment from scratch, scale out, rotate and secure the keys, solve tmp directory issues, ensure availa
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by boyter 11y ago
My wife is Panamanian and having just recently traveled there I got the same impression. I was asking everyone about it and they held the same opinions to yourself. It's also worth noting that the reason the canal was put in Panama ove
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Show HN: My first product All about CAPTCHA(leanpub.com)
1 points by boyter 11y ago|0 comments
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The Truth About Thesis.com(pearsonified.com)
21 points by boyter 11y ago|1 comments
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The ethics of a search engine(philbradley.typepad.com)
1 points by boyter 11y ago|0 comments
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Watering from overseas(rsyoussef.com)
9 points by boyter 11y ago|0 comments
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by boyter 11y ago
Potentially smart move. I always argued Oracle should buy them and have end to end business services. Hardware OS database language applications and integrated phone services. I guess the only thing Microsoft would be missing from the pictu
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Yandex – an alternative to Google(philb.com)
2 points by boyter 11y ago|1 comments
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by boyter 11y ago
Through mutual friends in Beijing of all places. Considering I am Australian and she from Panama it seems a very odd place. At the time I was working she she was studying. Honestly just try online dating. You know what you are getting to a
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by boyter 11y ago
Having just finished rolling out a largish scale Thumbor implementation has anyone compared it to Imgix? The feature set I required is served by both equally, so it comes down to performance/ddos prevention/cost for me mostly. I a
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by boyter 12y ago
I think the greatest thing we can learn from Harrison is being able to throw away a great deal of work for something new if it will produce a better result. The fact he did this himself with his orginal large sea clocks in favour of the sma
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AMD Exits Dense Microserver Business, Ends SeaMicro Brand(anandtech.com)
90 points by boyter 12y ago|37 comments
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by boyter 12y ago
Also true, however I think a basic ranking algorithm should still be fine for most cases if you have 100% spam eradication. Good content left over should bubble to the top. I tried building a small search engine with a very basic algorithm
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by boyter 12y ago
Cannot remember sorry. The numbers were published as 6 donations of $25,000 to different organisations. I got the link from twitter. I think of the groups was a women's interest group if that helps.
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by boyter 12y ago
You don't have to track users to make money. It's just a way of making more money hence its occurring. DuckDuckGo makes a business not tracking users and I believe made over 1.2 million last year based on its donations.
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by boyter 12y ago
Perhaps. The problem is that crawling the web isn't that hard. Foreach(links) { get(link)} is all you really need. Doing it multiple times is harder though. The real problem imho is building a distributed index and fighting spam. Both
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by boyter 12y ago
Agreed. There are only a few players with a large web index now. Google, Bing, Yandex, Gigablast, Baidu, Naver. Others that I can think of are IXQuick (not sure if they use their own index or not) and Yioop (smallish index). There really is
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IBM Watson Acquires Technology from Blekko(asmarterplanet.com)
106 points by boyter 12y ago|69 comments
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by boyter 12y ago
Thats a good point. I shall be doing that the next time one is at my local train station.
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by boyter 12y ago
Agreed. I have argued for this with other technical people and they still argue the opposite however. I am in New South Wales and have raised the source issue to all the candidates in my electorate. I usually get blank stares over this poin
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by boyter 12y ago
Hi Chris, Would it be possible to get a list of all the projects inside Google Code? I would very much like to grab the lot and preserve them inside searchcode.com Codeplex provides this sort of data and GitHub and Bitbucket have an API. I
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by boyter 12y ago
I wonder if there will be a feed for the list of projects currently inside Google Code. I would very much like to grab the lot and preserve them inside searchcode.com Anyone know if this is possible? Last time I checked it didn't have
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by boyter 12y ago
Interesting, but I found this effort http://www.homebrewcpu.com/ more impressive overall. It quite literally is a home made CPU which then had Minix 2 ported to it and booted. A very impressive achievement.
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by boyter 12y ago
Oddly I happen to be in India right now. Can still access every site listed. Not sure if it has not rolled out or perhaps foreign internet has less restrictions.
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Google's search is creaking(philbradley.typepad.com)
1 points by boyter 12y ago|0 comments
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by boyter 12y ago
Interesting. However it doesn't solve what I would argue is the harder problem of how to identify a time in the document. For example as I write this HN url says that it is 8 hours old. Without knowing the exact format how can I extrac
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DuckDuckGo Blowing Up Again(duckduckgo.com)
3 points by boyter 12y ago|0 comments

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