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   by corford 12y ago

   http://www.capitainetrain.com is a French startup (IIRC?) that does something more substantial than organising URLs
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   by corford 12y ago

   That's really interesting. So I guess, if we try and transplant this over to Snapchat, one failure scenario would be something like: Snapchat gets acquired for an outrageous sum before user engagement plateaus, Spiegel and team ride ha
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   by corford 12y ago

   Meteoric rise transforming to mass exodus and lots of dormant accounts in the space of a couple of years is what I meant. Myspace guys timed their exit well and Murdoch got left holding the baby. Just wondering if Speigel has missed the boa
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   by corford 12y ago

   At a guess, Stripe probably is or has been. SpaceX maybe too if you count the NASA cash as advance purchase for future service.
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   by corford 12y ago

   The last one is the obvious one and I think it's big enough to kill them. Unlike, say, Whatsapp, Snapchat's demographic is extremely teen & early twenties heavy. That's the worst demographic to be in if you're a hip
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   by corford 12y ago

   I know Evan Spiegel's a seriously smart guy but I can't shake the feeling that Snapchat is the Myspace of the current batch of unicorns and he's going to eventually regret not selling to FB or Google back in 2013. Though I th
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   by corford 12y ago

   I've found Apache Solr the best approach to building a flexible, fast auto-complete service. Solr can spit results back in json so it's dead easy to write a simple API wrapper in whatever language you're using (go, python, ru
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   by corford 12y ago

   Aren't most pre-IPO shares restricted though (company has ROFR, company board can block sale of shares to a third party they don't like etc.)?
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   by corford 12y ago

   Thanks for the info. @RobSpectre: what alexkinch just said re: Ofcom data :D
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    by corford 12y ago

    Based on a comment further up, my understanding is people buying on the secondary markets are not actually buying the shares. They're just offering $X to an employee now in return for being entitled to the full sale price of that emplo
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    by corford 12y ago

    Pretty solid! Only minor issues I could spot were: 1. Wrong carrier for my mobile - number started out life with a UK MVNO (sainsbury's mobile), I have since ported it to Virgin UK (another MVNO) but Twillio lists the carrier as being
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    by corford 12y ago

    >After seeing that China is modifying responses how can we trust any request that goes past the GFW You can't unless it's an HTTPS request (and even then you may still want to be suspicious).
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    by corford 12y ago

    Use HTTPS. That's it. With HTTP any part of a web page's code can be altered/replaced by a MitM attack. So any theoretical protection a javascript author put in place to try and detect a MitM attack could also easily be circu
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    by corford 12y ago

    Baidu have not been hacked. Their servers reside inside the great firewall meaning any request from outside China has to traverse the GFW before arriving at Baidu's servers. During traversal of the GFW, the Chinese gov is modifying the
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    by corford 12y ago

    Lists in pinboard.in and... lots of text files on my desktop & post-its on my monitors :)
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    by corford 12y ago

    Here's a python function we use to calculate haversine distances: import math from collections import namedtuple def haversine_distance(origin, destination): """ Haversine formula to calculate the distance
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    by corford 12y ago

    How about the first subsequent load after the TTL for the previous load expires? Admittedly, not much of an issue if you're a big site with hundreds/thousands of requests a minute but it is an issue if you're a less trafficed
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    by corford 12y ago

    Nice! Just signed up to host a probe but looks like they'll only send you one if they don't already have good coverage of your location/network. Not holding out much hope as afaict Europe is already pretty much blanketed :(
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    by corford 12y ago

    I was surprised Dyn weren't faster. Drilling down, I wonder what was going on between 25th Feb and 11th March? http://www.dnsperf.com/provider/Dyn
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    by corford 12y ago

    Hi jimaek! Thanks for putting this service together. For an African testing location maybe a VPS provider from ZA would work? Following are a few providers with Joburg or Cape Town presences (haven't personally used any though so YMMV)
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    by corford 12y ago

    I don't get it. Why is it a problem taking a pg_basebackup of the new master to re-seed the old master (which is now a slave) and then promoting it to master again? Or does pg_rewind offer a way to do this that doesn't require tak
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    by corford 12y ago

    Check out DynECT from http://www.dyn.com Twitter, Mozilla and lots of other big names use them. I remember watching a webcast where Mozilla said they used Dyn's anycast failover service, with TTLs on their domains set to 5
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    by corford 12y ago

    Re: Hetzner - they do offer some cheap "desktop" grade servers but they also offer lots of real servers: https://www.hetzner.de/ot/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver-p... (e.g. 120GB RAM, Xeon chips,
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    by corford 12y ago

    I host all my stuff with Hetzner (who are at the cheap end of the market compared to Softlayer) and even they provide pre-configured VLANS and private switches. For intra-DC you can just setup some redundant openvpn links or pay the dc to c
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    by corford 12y ago

    Insightful points, thanks! I guess from all of that, the optimist in me only sees "Most people use Gmail, Google Search, and YouTube, all of which heavily promote Chrome." as an on-going threat. On every other front FF is either a
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    by corford 12y ago

    The latest FF builds have been rock solid for me (Win7 x64 with 4 or 5 big name extensions and that's it). I've currently got about 130 tabs open, FF is using ~ 1.1GB of RAM and has been sitting open & running in this state fo
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    by corford 12y ago

    Maybe take the middle road? Grab a copy now if you can't wait and buy it later when it comes out on DVD/Blueray. Fortunately it's being aired here in the UK on Channel 4 tomorrow so I haven't got this dilemma.
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    by corford 12y ago

    https://twitter.com/Cryptomeorg/status/566616227582582785 Is that good enough (taken from further up in this thread)?
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    by corford 12y ago

    (Solo-founder in the middle of a last pre-launch crunch): all the emotions I had (excitement, fear, doubt, fun, confusion) seem to have been dialled out to white noise and I find myself in a moment of almost zen like tranquillity. I know wh
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    by corford 12y ago

    Plus one for this. Emailing a a couple of bullet points to yourself at the end of the day so you've got a launch point the following morning really helps avoid that dangerous first 10 minutes in the morning where you sit down at the co