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by dbarlett 14y ago
Reminds me of "ICMP delay-line memory": http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12748246/sorting-1-millio...
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by dbarlett 14y ago
2. Very good. They ask for a decent set of measurements, collect feedback on every item, and remember comments like "I have big calves from running". 3. Yes. You also get an email before each shipment and can cancel (like Amazon Subscribe &
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by dbarlett 14y ago
There's a third category: guys who like mid-level clothing but don't have time to test the fit of different brands. I gave Bombfell my measurements (not bizarre but outside of what you find at Macy's) and they've sent two shirts and two pai
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by dbarlett 14y ago
Two limits of free accounts: no sync agent, and you can't be logged in on two browser sessions simultaneously.
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by dbarlett 14y ago
VMWare calls it vMotion [1]. You define the host cluster and it handles the rest. Xen supports live migration [2] but EC2 does not. [1] http://www.vmware.com/products/datacenter-virtualization/vsp... [2] http://sysadmin.wikia.com/wiki/Li
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by dbarlett 14y ago
I'm a big fan of the GAS (Google Analytics on Steroids) wrapper [1]. One of the coolest features is firing GA events from embedded YouTube videos [2] to track viewer retention [3]. [1] https://github.com/cardinalpath/gas [2] https://gist
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by dbarlett 14y ago
More on printing replacement parts in space: http://www.airspacemag.com/space-exploration/Printed-in-Spac...
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by dbarlett 14y ago
There's not a lot of documentation, but Systems Manager is solid. I've been testing the Android client and found it stable and well-behaved.
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by dbarlett 14y ago
A comment yesterday [1] led me to Chocolatey NuGet [2], a package manager for Windows built on PowerShell. The gallery [3] has almost everything I need to set up a dev environment. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4763895 [2] htt
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by dbarlett 14y ago
If you want to learn about the evolution and operation of Mission Control, "Failure Is Not an Option"[1] by Gene Kranz (Ed Harris in Apollo 13 ) is fantastic. For more Apollo geekery, check out "Moon Lander: How We Developed the Apollo Lun
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by dbarlett 14y ago
You've described a contract of adhesion [1]. They aren't illegal, but are subject to additional judicial scrutiny. [1] http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/adhesion_contract_contract_of...
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by dbarlett 14y ago
Page.ly was awful. When my sites weren't down due to botched infrastructure upgrades, users would get locked out of the admin interface by "FireHost Website Protection" (FireHost was/is their underlying hosting provider). The same sad cycle
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by dbarlett 14y ago
telnet rainmaker.wunderground.com
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by dbarlett 14y ago
Does anyone know of a comparison chart between Twilio, Tropo, Plivo and TelAPI (and any others I don't know about)?
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by dbarlett 14y ago
That's known as "subvocalization" [1]. Look at a basic speed reading book for tips on avoiding it. [1] https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Speed_Reading#Subvocalization
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by dbarlett 14y ago
If you're in the Bay Area, the LLNL tour [1] is well worth it. Ever seen an 800-pound crystal [2]? [1] https://www.llnl.gov/about/tours.html [2] https://lasers.llnl.gov/multimedia/photo_gallery/overview/?i...
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by dbarlett 14y ago
Normally, mod_security parses incoming traffic and blocks suspicious activity based on third-party rules [1]. Since you're using Squid, you can monitor outgoing traffic instead. Malicious traffic would get dropped instead of being proxied.
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by dbarlett 14y ago
What about adaptive blacklisting? Something like fail2ban or mod_security, but on your proxy, facing inward.
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by dbarlett 14y ago
If you don't want to mess with iptables, ClearOS (CentOS derivative) [1] has built-in multi-WAN support [2], including auto-failover and load balancing. There's a GUI, but you can always SSH in and configure things manually. My home router/
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by dbarlett 14y ago
Check out http://www.lowendbox.com/
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by dbarlett 14y ago
Manned Orbiting Laboratory: 2 men in a Gemini derivative. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manned_Orbiting_Laboratory
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by dbarlett 14y ago
Has anyone compared this to Leaflet[1] or Mapstraction[2]? Leaflet was a big help on a quick project, but the abstraction was somewhat leaky and there were annoying bugs switching between maps. [1] http://leaflet.cloudmade.com/ [2] http:
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by dbarlett 14y ago
Almost no change after 25 weeks in a home compost pile: http://cockeyed.com/science/compost_chips/sunchips.php
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by dbarlett 15y ago
Yes. According to a NASA study [1], Falcon 9 development would cost $1.3B as Cost Plus Fee ("traditional NASA") or $443M Firm Fixed Price ("more commercial approach"). Compare to SpaceX actual of "about $300M". [1] http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/
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by dbarlett 15y ago
IBM calls it the "Anti-Spoofing Password Dialog Box": https://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg245341.pdf (PDF - page 63).
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by dbarlett 15y ago
There was a great story posted last year[1] about laying out the MOS 6502. Bill Mensch got it right on the first try, by hand. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2064030
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by dbarlett 15y ago
Quite a change from three years ago, when State was stuck on IE6 and Secretary Clinton didn't know what Firefox was. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/13/firefox_and_us_state...
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by dbarlett 15y ago
The actual holding in Taylor v. Taintor ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_v._Taintor ) is not nearly as famous as the paragraph in the majority opinion that gives legal standing to bounty hunters: "Whenever they choose to do so, they ma
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by dbarlett 15y ago
Previously: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3293324
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by dbarlett 15y ago
My client decided to move to a VPS, but http://wpengine.com/ looked promising.

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