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by d2 15y ago
You're linking to commercial services touting them as examples of Amazon being more open than Google? Services linked to are: MapReduce, S3, EC2, SQS, SES and MechTurk. sigh
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by d2 15y ago
OK kids, here's what you need to know. There are three levels of your relationship with Godaddy: Level 1: You're in balls deep. You register your domains with GoDaddy, use their DNS servers and host your shit on their servers. You also get
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by d2 15y ago
Because sometimes separation of presentation from content is not worth the additional labor cost and complexity.
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Falsificationism and Falsifiability(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by d2 15y ago|1 comments
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by d2 15y ago
Trust you? You've failed to take into account the opportunity cost of your time spent working on the business. Lets assume your labor costs $120,000 a year and the company is not paying you. So it's costing you $120,000 a year. Sell that "p
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Why Mixpanel switched from Erlang to Python(readwriteweb.com)
7 points by d2 15y ago|2 comments
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by d2 15y ago
I've heard of 3 out of 10 of these highly successful startups. I think we call ourselves successes prematurely to try to accelerate the arrival of true success. Again today a very good friend who runs a startup with great potential trumpete
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by d2 15y ago
Delivering cryptographic software via a network, having it run in a "maleable" runtime and creating a user expectation that it will be secure, is not new. We've been doing this on the desktop for years. I'd like to pose a question to the au
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Steven Jobs, American Genius: Exit the King(thedailybeast.com)
2 points by d2 15y ago|0 comments
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by d2 15y ago
This is right on - particularly the part about you screwing up the hiring process, not the exec being at fault. I made assumptions about a level of professionalism that I never assessed properly. I went through this a year+ ago and I hired
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Spend a day hacking Hadoop code with Doug Cutting(sfgate.com)
2 points by d2 15y ago|0 comments
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by d2 15y ago
My favorite paragraph: The nurse "called the emergency room doctor, who told him that I was dead and that they should walk away," says Snitzer. "And he hung up and he said to the rest of the people in the room, 'Is anyone else here uncomfor
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Sprint to get iPhone 5 in mid-Oct.(usatoday.com)
2 points by d2 15y ago|0 comments
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by d2 15y ago
"Earthquakes make Web Servers sad". Dude. What the FUCK?
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Google starts to block hacked WordPress blogs as malware(markmaunder.com)
17 points by d2 15y ago|11 comments
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DeployMint: A Git based Staging and Deployment System for WordPress(markmaunder.com)
54 points by d2 15y ago|3 comments
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by d2 15y ago
"Drink coffee and then take a 15 minute nap.". Advice like this makes it hard to take this article seriously. It's also a little thin on the data. Sure, it's an article on caffeine, so it'll rank on the geek sites, but do you feel richer or
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by d2 15y ago
Hey. Genius. Some of us send over a million emails a week as a free service to users who are happy to hear from us. We just can't afford to check the damn inbox for that many people, so noreply makes it clear. Don't fucking reply because if
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by d2 15y ago
The problem is that I feel less smart and less motivated for 2 weeks after smoking a joint.
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by d2 15y ago
I think the spirit of your idea of a per transaction tax on financial products is a good one. I would balance the increase in government revenue with a reduction in tax on capital gains held more than 5 years as Cuban suggests.
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by d2 15y ago
I'm with you there yo.
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by d2 15y ago
So keep an eye on treasury bonds on monday morning. Rate goes up, people still believe the US is safe, regardless of S&P. Rate goes down, market sentiment mirrors S&P's rating, and that's very very bad.
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by d2 15y ago
Netscape 6 is (or was) the oft quoted example of why not to do this. All that old code may seem old and boring, but it has a huge amount of knowledge, wisdoms, learnings, fixed mistakes, performance improvements, great ideas, deleted bad id
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Technical details and scripts of the Wordpress Timthumb hack(markmaunder.com)
1 points by d2 15y ago|0 comments
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by d2 15y ago
You could also "cat /usr/local/wordpress/wp-config.php" and see the plaintext mysql username/password and inject malicious data into the DB, create/drop tables or databases depending on access level.
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by d2 15y ago
Problem is that then you can't auto install themes, auto update wordpress - and the script causing this vulnerability requires a writable cache directory under the wordpress root.
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Zero Day Vulnerability in many Wordpress Themes(markmaunder.com)
128 points by d2 15y ago|53 comments
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by d2 15y ago
Sam, you've certainly made an enemy out of every member of the Perl community with this sarcastic and incomplete post. Once you've gotten through OReilly's beginner Perl books and "Programming Perl", if you truly want to learn how to scale
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by d2 15y ago
http://www.math.ucla.edu/~tom/Stopping/Contents.html See chapter 7.
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by d2 15y ago
From the Wikipedia entry: "Originally [the bandit problem was] considered by Allied scientists in World War II, it proved so intractable that it was proposed the problem be dropped over Germany so that German scientists could also waste the

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