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DNSworks is looking for a technical cofounder.
17 points by dnsworks 17y ago|7 comments
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by dnsworks 17y ago
Policing for porn? Err, why would they do that? I mean, like Willie Sutton would say, "That's where the money is" ...
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by dnsworks 17y ago
The idea that facial tattoos mean "this person expects to spend his life in prison" is ridiculous. I know a dozen programmers with neck and facial tattoos, one of whom is also a VC-funded entrepreneur in Seattle. I bet the closest any of th
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by dnsworks 17y ago
I didn't feel comfortable looking somebody in the eyes while talking them until I was 22 or 23 and had just re-read How To Win Friends & Influence People for the 3rd or 4th time.
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by dnsworks 17y ago
It's amusing that Techcrunch considers themselves and a handful of other startups "the internet". This is why we architect provider independent solutions. Keep your TTLs low. Replicate your site to another provider, and be prepared to hit t
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Ask HN: Why does broadband still suck in 2009?
5 points by dnsworks 17y ago|3 comments
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by dnsworks 17y ago
I didn't forget ubisoft, actually. Younoodle, however, I apparently missed.
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by dnsworks 17y ago
I beg to differ. Twitter is a block away from me. Within 8 blocks: * iskoot * slideshare * rapleaf * wikia * ubisoft * google * gogrids * pivotallabs * technorati * dropbox * justin.tv * engineyard * heroku * socialcast * heyzap * yammer *
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by dnsworks 17y ago
Here in San Francisco, "Proper" means "I'm from the suburbs and I'm gearing up to bitch about San Francisco's parking and one-way streets"
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by dnsworks 17y ago
This last item hits me rather personally. Last year I was paying $1,500/month for a room in a tiny apartment to live across on Laguna and Hayes, right across from the housing project. It was like somebody drew a big line and put all of the
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by dnsworks 17y ago
When Zynga fails, will Mark Pincus need to go into witness protection while hiding from angry Russians?
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by dnsworks 17y ago
Have you seen this boy?
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by dnsworks 17y ago
What he's saying is, "We failed miserably at having good process and procedures. Because of this we are going to lecture others, and point the blame at everybody but ourselves, in hopes that they'll stop pointing out how much credibility we
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by dnsworks 17y ago
Automatic validation is done through every backup (and I have my guys do a review of the logs from the nightly cron procedures). Once a month we test our restore procedures.
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by dnsworks 17y ago
If you fail to audit and test your disaster recovery procedures on a regular basis, then you fail at competently maintaining your infrastructure. No excuses.
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by dnsworks 17y ago
The open source support model is a scary one. Redhat & MySQL feel like the exceptions. It is hard to recall any other "open source support" companies that have really made it in a big way.
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by dnsworks 17y ago
Yet another clothing site where people who don't fit into model-sized garments are SOL? Yippy.
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by dnsworks 17y ago
I'm pretty in love with my Gateway FHD2401 24" laptop. It's 1920x1200, and so bright I don't bother with the screen on my MBP anymore. It's specs came in comparable with >$500 monitors, and it had quite a number of good marks in the var
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by dnsworks 17y ago
I've been using Maria Ku for years. She saved my backside when I first started consulting and didn't consider the tax implications of my actions. Her rates are fair, and she's easy to work with. I've never actually met her as she's in Oakla
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by dnsworks 17y ago
I've been building infrastructure a long time, and for even longer, I've been fixing bad infrastructure. When I first consulted for a company using EC2, they were using it because they were just bad at planning & managing their infrastr
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by dnsworks 17y ago
I don't know about that. Within a month or two of buying my first modem in 1992 I was on bulletin boards that had FIDOnet subscriptions, which quickly gave me enough information to be dangerous.
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by dnsworks 17y ago
Absolutely. 20 years ago telcos didn't bother adding password protection to digital "switches" because they didn't even consider war dialers or the proliferation of internal documentation through bulletin boards. Unix vendors like Microsoft
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by dnsworks 17y ago
Yes. But that does not normally matter. Bandwidth has become ridiculously cheap either way; a terabyte sets you back a measly hundred bucks on amazon. And if you're pushing more than a few dozen of them then most of it is very likely going
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by dnsworks 17y ago
Have you considered Dragon Naturally Speaking? Ask @benjyfeen about it, he works in SRE at Google. My understanding is his carpal tunnel got so bad that he had to stop typing 4 or 5 years ago, and went through some intensive training with D
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by dnsworks 17y ago
The HP/Compaq merge wasn't too hard to see. Somebody had to buy up Compaq as the market consolidated, and it wasn't going to be Dell. As for Sun, that's like predicting that the year will end in a few weeks. Mcnealy was one big pile of fail
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by dnsworks 17y ago
I am at a loss as to any predictions that Cringely has ever gotten right. In that regard, he is somewhat akin to the Amazing Criswell ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Amazing_Criswell )
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by dnsworks 17y ago
Speculation: EU already planning to bully Intel out of acquiring nVIDIA
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by dnsworks 17y ago
At any reasonable scale, S3 bandwidth is still a magnitude more expensive than you would pay at an aggressive dedicated server company like ServerBeach, ThePlanet, 10tb.com, or SoftLayer. It's also even worse when you compare it to discount
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by dnsworks 17y ago
No, they won't. There's no financial incentive for Craigslist to innovate. They own the classifieds market. Jim will spew off some great CEO-speak as to why they're not going to provide an API. Craig will respond with a half-hearted answer
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by dnsworks 17y ago
This company used to appear a lot at LinuxWorld & Mac World touting rackmount enclosures for acoustically sensitive areas like recording studios. http://www.xrackpro.com/

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