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by dedward 16y ago
They want the website itself to NOT suggest in any way that people should click on AdSense ads. They want people to do it naturally, of their own accord - so their algorithms (googles) can handle ad placement and whatnot. It's not the same
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by dedward 16y ago
Anyone know of any non-US based cloud services with reasonable capacity?
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Is that really cloud hosting?
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Do you think it will hurt you to shop around a bit? I mean there's no free lunch - a consolidation loan might cost you more than sorting the mess out on your own, but (no insult intend, please don't take it so) - you probably wouldn't be in
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by dedward 16y ago
Food and service. Service is equally important. mediocre food and superb service gets customers better than superb food with shitty service. I can see see a way that ... nevermind, i'll just go do it rather than let someone beat me to it.
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Many - because they don't need a better online presence to get more business. Their tables are full - the only way to squeeze more profits is to charge more, possibly changing clientele, or act more efficiently, or both. A cool website fo
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by dedward 16y ago
Other side of the planet, but I've had my plan rate-achanged accidentally and it really did take severla levels of technical support (although the problem was recognized, nobodoy could solve it) to fix it -there turned out ot be only one or
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by dedward 16y ago
True - DMA can do that - but then you'd have to have something managing the network stack - the kernel manages tcp/ip. From the man page: "sendfile() copies data between one file descriptor and another. Because this copying is done within t
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by dedward 16y ago
Supernodes are just guys like you and me with the right amount of bandwidth and the right network connection - if bad code or bad data exposed an existing bug, causing the supernodes in the meshed p2p network to go down - you have a chicken
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that about sums it up. He's the guy who's invaluable in your startup, and will probably get shafted when things go corporate because the strong points that made him good for you at the startup stage work against him once you try to categor
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Where does "generalist" usually fit in your mid to large corporate structure these days? It seems to me a good generalist tends to either leave/get fed up because at some point the company grows and he doesn't fit within their new structure
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I dont' know about Europe - but "boookie price algorithms" is generally a few guys sitting behind some computers adjusting odds and prices to try to balance out their perceived risk against what the market wants to bet on - so they try ot b
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That's the interesting theoretical bit. The reality bit is where you have to ensure that you can get both bets checked in with the bookie(s) involved at the price you wanted - and arbitrage opportunities tend to show up more when the market
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sendfile() still requires CPU time - it just passes the job of sending the data over the socket to the kernel to finish up. The previous method would have been a select() loop or similar that ensured the data was sent out to the kernel, i
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by dedward 16y ago
It is pure optimization - they said it gives them a performance boost and smooths things out. In their "flat-file" setup though - they are deliberately configured so that, should varnish fail (which was one of their concerns) - they don't a
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by dedward 16y ago
I'm really curious now how many other large setups use a similar setup (memchache, varnish, apache, rails) for their sites... anyone know a good sites that's put together any statitstic?
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When dealing with unpredictably high traffic spikes, on days when you cannot afford any kind of downtime - when that downtime comes at great cost, it's not overengineering (and it's hard to determine if it's overengineered until you know th
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by dedward 16y ago
If you look at the current webserving stacks propagating out there, wev'e gone from apache to multi-layered stuff, haproxy/varnish/nginx/apache/mongrel/rails/ various fcgi/etc..... and the thing to keep in mind is there is overlap between m
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by dedward 16y ago
It's risk mitigation... this is one way you can deal with unpredictably large spikes in traffic.... for the NYT - elections probably represent their extreme. For the regular ebb and flow of data, you can plan, and use varnish/rails/nginx/ a
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by dedward 16y ago
I hear this more and more lately - and sure, competition would be good.. but, what's wrong with textmate at this point? I bought a few copies a few years ago, and I've been using them ever since, lots of extensions, still nice and light, st
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by dedward 16y ago
There's a selection bias at work - emacs. I haven't met many people who casually use emacs (other than those trying it out for the firs time, or giving it another shot, (or another, or another)) For those who really GET emacs, and think in
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by dedward 16y ago
Today,I would keep it liquid, in safe banks, possibly SOME in actual gold (no I'm not a gold freak). A foreign bank with better reserve policies might not be a bad idea. Maybe some Euros or some other currency as a hedge, but that's it. Not
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by dedward 16y ago
Not sure I buy the reasoning - but I will say I have seen a trend where previous unix guys (usually linux, some bsd - as per the demographics) end up going for the apple laptops just because of OSX.
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They didn't "establish nullification" - nullification is simply the logical outcome that the jury's decision is final, and can't be questioned. The reason judges don't want this fact brought up by counsel during court is because it would re
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I don't know - the most recent "Year's best science fiction" was a bit of a letdown (And if the editor, Gardner Dozois is reading this, please don't take it personally). I'f that's the best out there (I trust the editor) then, well, maybe
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Right on - thanks. (and all you other SaaS providers out there - take note!)
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The one question that bothers me is confidentiality.... code is IP of the company writing it. What prevents someone on a copyright fishing expedition from getting some kind of court order for the hosting provider to turn over all of my com
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All good design is intentional by definition.
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It comes down to expectations again. I've recovered some seriously screwed up hard drives. I know the tools, I have the resources. I takes quite a bit of my time, plus I'm assuming some risk. I therefore now direct corporate data loss issue
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Not necessarily the best examples - traders who are trading millions of dollars a day may be living in a flat with no furniture and be in debt up to their eyeballs. Just because they are trading other people's money a lot doesn't necessari

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