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by cbg0 14y ago
There are plenty of projects like these on freelance websites; They either end up being a low quality clone with fewer features than the original, or never get funded to begin with.
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by cbg0 14y ago
There is a bit of overhead since you are in a virtualized environment on EC2, plus the "micro" instance does not really give you a dedicated processor core - you're sharing CPU time with other instances.
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by cbg0 14y ago
In sales, or how exactly?
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by cbg0 14y ago
This sounds like it's an issue related with your bank trying to scrounge more money off you. I have a European debit card and I get charged the equivalent in EUR, nothing more.
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by cbg0 14y ago
> Trying to bully the competition with purchased patents and lawyers will only turn people off their products Actually, I doubt it will, as very few people care about the rivalry between large corporations. Apple even started suing mom
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by cbg0 14y ago
Some notes: 1. You can't order from OVH if you're from outside their list of approved countries. 2. You're not using any RAID and those are desktop grade SSD drives, and they tend to die out, sometimes without a clear warning, as they're no
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by cbg0 14y ago
This assumes Amazon is using SLC and not MLC drives, which are considerably cheaper. Also, the quote above is from SoftLayer I believe, which is not the cheapest provider for high end hardware.
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by cbg0 14y ago
Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4079977
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by cbg0 14y ago
They removed that part from their Terms of Service.
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by cbg0 14y ago
Would you confirm your anti-cheat system could ban honest players? I'm not saying there's some conspiracy, but it would make them look foolish.
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by cbg0 14y ago
This happened before with World of Warcraft and the users were unbanned: http://www.linuxlookup.com/2006/nov/22/blizzard_unbans_linux... Still, you would think they learned after the first time.
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by cbg0 14y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote I do corporate logo design at a firm and I'm currently looking for some work on the side. All work is vector art obviously, and business card design as well as letterhead design can be provided. You can find my e-mail
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by cbg0 14y ago
You'd lose a lot of doughnuts.
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by cbg0 14y ago
Well, you can't run IE on Ubuntu.
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One of the reasons why I love freelancing(bighea.com)
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by cbg0 14y ago
I'm pretty certain when you migrate from a different database you're supposed to check your schema and data anyway, or do you just "decide" it should work without question? I'm not saying this MySQL behavior is acceptable, I'm just saying t
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by cbg0 14y ago
This is actually documented behavior: "The CHECK clause is parsed but ignored by all storage engines." From: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/create-table.html I believe it was left to support certain migrations(?). You can create
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by cbg0 14y ago
Apparently, it isn't PostgreSQL; If you have no need for Postgres features and you're not familiar with it, sticking to MySQL is fine.
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by cbg0 15y ago
Considering how much work was put into this, the novelty is lost very quickly, for me at least.
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by cbg0 15y ago
Here's the image at a higher resolution (1000x5565) : http://i.imgur.com/U2pRx.jpg
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by cbg0 15y ago
It would be interesting to see how this performs, compared to running Lucene, Solr, Sphinx, or what-have-you on an EC2 instance with equal resources.
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by cbg0 15y ago
Probably because some haven't seen it yet and/or because people love discussing this topic.
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by cbg0 15y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote I do corporate logo work for various design companies and I'm currently looking for some additional work. You can find my e-mail in my profile, contact me and I'll send you some samples.