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by corford 12y ago
Linode bet the wrong way by prioritising more cores over SSDs and I think this slip up is what gave DO room to enter the market. Had Linode moved to SSDs earlier and offered their cheapest VM @ $10 instead of $20, DO's trajectory may h
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by corford 12y ago
Or caching...
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by corford 12y ago
According to https://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html the answer is no. 16bits is more than enough to cover the entire range a human ear can pick up (assuming the source material was mixed and sample
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by corford 12y ago
Quick practical advice that works for me (a guy with 300+ books on my Amazon wishlist that I'm blatantly never going to buy and read): Stay off reddit & google news, check HN in the afternoon/evening and not first thing in the
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by corford 12y ago
And... bummer they've just scrubbed the launch for today :(
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by corford 12y ago
New T-ZERO just set at 14:44 UTC (and that's the last possible attempt for today)
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by corford 12y ago
Which the author mentions repeatedly in his post.
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by corford 12y ago
Doesn't answer everything but does give you some real world ranges to consider: http://codingvc.com/analyzing-angellist-job-postings-part-1-... (was posted to HN a few days ago I think).
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by corford 12y ago
I'm a fan of the VPN terminator as jump point approach. OpenVPN with tls-auth switched on is a pretty robust front door. If you combine that with enforced key only auth for ssh, ensure all internal machines run their own firewall and l
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by corford 12y ago
Yes although our government has forced them to open up the last mile to competition. So unlike with Comcast/AT&T, at least here you can switch to a more palatable ISP fairly easily & quickly. You're still somewhat at the m
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by corford 12y ago
Definitely true neither they nor we should have to do it. Fortunately, there are still some good ISPs left in the UK. I'm with Andrews & Arnold and they're staunch supporters of an uncensored net ( http://www.aa.net.
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by corford 12y ago
Grab a DO instance for $5/month, install openvpn on it, set it to serve over tcp & port 443 if you have to and then shove your DNS and everything else through that. Yes it's sad this is necessary but it's easy to do, cost
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by corford 12y ago
>I wonder if there is some non public intelligence about north korea that is pushing them to do this. First that and then this: https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/asia-pacific/north-kor... Something see
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by corford 12y ago
Ha! Well that simplifies things for me :) Honestly, your service is so solid I can't remember the last time I actually logged in to check something. It really is backup as a utility (you should consider re-branding as "BaaU"
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by corford 12y ago
I use duplicity + rsync.net and have wondered about this attack vector. My solution (which admittedly only protects against remote backups being deleted by an attacker, not read) is: 1. Use sub accounts on rsync.net so backups from differen
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by corford 12y ago
Slightly OT but does uwsgi feature much in the ruby world? /from a curious python guy
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by corford 12y ago
That link should have been: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8584126
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by corford 12y ago
Don't know if the author pushed out a fix or the problem was with Firefox but the navigation links on the left now work after FF auto-updated to v33.1
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by corford 12y ago
Tom Wheeler might not be the wolf in the hen house a lot of people think he is. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=rayiner
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by corford 12y ago
Bug report: If I follow the "Demo" link from the homepage, the first demo ("Buttons") works but clicking on any of the others (via the left hand menu) e.g. "Dialog" doesn't do anything. No obvious errors i
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by corford 12y ago
Ah yes, forgot about WASTE. His corporate disobedience with gnutella etc. made me respect him even more. TBH I think everyone saw the writing on the wall as soon as they bought Winamp... difficult to picture JF happily sitting in a cubicle
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by corford 12y ago
Ah Winamp. I still use it today. Justin Frankel is one of my role models as far as how to 'live the dream' goes. He built something great, cashed out young, avoided becoming a tech celebrity, stayed a curious geek and just carried
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by corford 12y ago
OpenWRT on a Buffalo WZR-HP-AG300H is a another very nice and cheap solution.
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by corford 12y ago
https://www.pfsense.org/hardware/#pfsense-store
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by corford 12y ago
Off-topic but does anyone here have any first hand experience with redstation.com ? Hadn't heard of them before but have just checked their prices and they're in the same ball park as Hetzner. Surprised me given they are a UK base
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by corford 12y ago
Spideroak for photos, docs etc. (and Bitorrent Sync so my laptop and desktop are always in sync). Robocopy and an external USB drive for a monthly backup of large media. I've been using Spideroak for ~3 years now and its been faultless
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by corford 12y ago
Am I correct in thinking that everything carries on as before if you're a UK based Ltd, VAT registered and the only sales you make to EC based clients are to entities with a VAT number? Basically, the place of supply remains the UK and
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by corford 12y ago
I'm about to launch and I hate ToSs that consist of dense nonsensical boilerplate legalese. Is there anything out there (template or affordable service) to help a website owner construct a sane and simple ToS for their site/wepapp
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by corford 12y ago
From living in France, I always had the impression it was mandatory. All of my French friends thought it was bizarre that I would go out without my UK passport on me as they always kept their ID card with them at all times. My girlfriend&#x
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by corford 12y ago
I'm fairly certain it's a requirement in France.

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