chillydawg

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by chillydawg 11y ago
Excellent :D Perhaps it should have been mountain goat, though?
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by chillydawg 11y ago
Yeah, but it's a very rare in-house team that can keep stuff up better than an AWS of a gcloud. I'd only consider it if I was doing really, really REALLY specialised stuff that absolutely could not be handed off to some mega-host.
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by chillydawg 11y ago
That is a fantastic idea. Have a crowdsourced list driven by users of an extension clicking "this is 100% shill". Once enough distinct people click it, the url goes on The List and is distributed to everyone who wants to use it in
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by chillydawg 11y ago
How is it any harder to do in the cloud than on a rack in a warehouse? At least you don't have to muck about with cables and phoning power companies up.
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by chillydawg 11y ago
I'm not sure how flooding the market with bitcoin trying to buy USD would drive the USD price of bitcoin up. I think you have something backwards here.
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by chillydawg 11y ago
Or, more likely, someone will jump in front of that request for 50% and ask for 45%. Then 40%, then 30, then 20 and then 8%. It's a market. I do agree, though, that those very high discounts should be a red flag, if they're for an
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by chillydawg 11y ago
Spot the non-Brit over here.
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by chillydawg 11y ago
Imagine the hilarity if they sued? They'd be caricaturing themselves in the best possible way. It would be spectacular to watch.
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by chillydawg 11y ago
Because even with no fees, the rate your card uses to turn USD into whatevers will vary from card to card. If you're not paying an up front transaction fee, you're almost certainly getting rinsed on the rate offered.
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by chillydawg 11y ago
Gamble with your pension fund, keep the winnings when they win and cry to the government to pay them back when they lose. They're called bankers and they're scum.
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by chillydawg 11y ago
That is fantastic.
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by chillydawg 11y ago
Given TBL is involved (who helped start the Open Data Institute in the UK) I would have thought they'd be pretty much 100% open by default. I guess not.
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by chillydawg 11y ago
Hah.
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by chillydawg 11y ago
The more the merrier, imo. If they can do a better job at PR, marketing and "branding" than the more stilted organisations doing the same thing, then they can speed up the changing of public perceptions and speed up eventual adopt
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by chillydawg 11y ago
If micro (possibly nano) seconds matter, you can't use a broker system like rabbit. 0mq is a set of wrappers around tcp and udp and allow you to do network programming at extreme performance levels generally not available without a who
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by chillydawg 11y ago
PGSQL just keeps getting better! Even gives Oracle a run for its money in a lot of areas.
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by chillydawg 12y ago
Restrict it 100% in robots.txt for now so it at least works? And then once you've managed to get through to a human (lol, good luck :( ) at Google, you can go from there.
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by chillydawg 12y ago
Longshot Systems, London, UK. Web scraping / data manager role. £30-50k depending on experience. This is not a traditional job offer, it's an offer to join our gambling syndicate, your pay will be a fraction of syndicate winnings.
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by chillydawg 12y ago
Data Manager, London, UK. Longshot Systems is a sports betting syndicate that is looking for a new syndicate member to take control of all data. Sourcing, parsing, scraping, storing, manipulating - everything. Benefits: cold, hard cash. We