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by dnsworks 16y ago
And who do you think pays these people to ddos sites like slideshare and posterous? (both of whom have been my customers during massive ddos's from China). I'm sure there's like one posting somewhere on Posterous that someone in the Chinese
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by dnsworks 16y ago
50gbps is pretty massive. Clearly somebody did something horrifically insulting to China like mention that they could maybe possible consider treating Tibet a little bit more humanely and stop turning it into one big whorehouse.. make a sta
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by dnsworks 16y ago
There's an anti-DDOS service out there, Progent or something. Part of their solution adds all of APNIC's ip addresses into your router's bogon list when you're under attack. It turns out for most DDOS's if you turn off china, the attack jus
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by dnsworks 16y ago
It frightens me how many of these responses are people describing the scams they'd pull off if they had the cajones to do so.
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by dnsworks 16y ago
If a solid month of work for $25k seems like "a big project" then maybe you're not billing enough.
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by dnsworks 16y ago
I think Playdom is probably a lot larger than Slide... oh hrm and Playdom was just acquired by Disney for $763M. Slide is definitely small fries in comparison to Playdom or Zynga.
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by dnsworks 16y ago
A lot of meaning what .. 250,000 globally? Maybe 500,000? I doubt many of those people are hacker news readers.
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by dnsworks 16y ago
Repeat after me, "I will never make any money beyond a salary working for somebody else. My only chance at striking it rich is by being a founder in my own company, or getting lucky in the lottery (or (casino, inheritance, getting run over
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by dnsworks 16y ago
Sometime in the future I expect to see this same type of posting about Twitter and Digg.
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by dnsworks 16y ago
This is silly. Go to your board, and tell them that you're raising your salary to $100k. Have a good list of reasons ready, but don't offer, and for bob's sake, don't ask. If you're the CEO and founder, walk in like you own the place and se
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by dnsworks 16y ago
Chef is kind of cool, but the Chef server? Reggie Watts described it best in his song, "Fuck Shit Stack".
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by dnsworks 16y ago
This sounds a case of: mind your own business. Sometimes people will only learn the hard way.
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by dnsworks 16y ago
The past month I've been hitting the gym in my building whenever my brain doesn't want to work, and clear my mind completely. I'll put on the noise canceling headphones, find some good 100 -> 120bpm music, and get lost in it while pedal
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by dnsworks 16y ago
I'm guessing 10 servers for redundancy? A server with 192GB of memory can be had for about $15k nowadays.
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by dnsworks 16y ago
Jacob, stick in the peninsula or south bay, San Francisco is frustratingly expensive with a really broken housing market. The last 2 months of my life have been devoted to finding the right apartment, and I think I'm leaving San Francisco b
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by dnsworks 16y ago
Yay. A marginally competent hosting company just released the code to their mostly unsuccessful cloud! This is like IBM open sourcing OS/2 a year after they admitted defeat to Microsoft in the desktop operating system market.
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by dnsworks 16y ago
I have to agree with you on this. I've been in SF for a decade, and SOMA for the past year and a half. SOMA is pretty abysmal, and it's not really San Francisco. It's sort of what you would expect if Palo Alto regurgitated all over San Fra
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by dnsworks 16y ago
Oh man if you're going to be in town in August, why don't you plan on crashing at my place for a weekend? I think you'd get along well with my new roommate, and if the timing is right a few other engineers will be in town hanging out as wel
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by dnsworks 16y ago
This is sort of silly. You can put your start-up anywhere in San Francisco and be reasonably close to the start-up community. The only real benefit to being in SOMA that I see is that it's easier to stumble to events straight after work lik
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by dnsworks 16y ago
At least the way I like to build infrastructure, physical servers don't really matter. If for whatever reason servers had to get moved, their mac address would be updated to reflect it's location. I wrote some code a while back which grabs
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by dnsworks 16y ago
Cute hostnames are pretty obnoxious. My preferred method of building out datacenters is more self-documenting, and I've done it on 4 rack colo buildouts and 100 rack colo build-outs. I just use a naming format of Loc-Cabinet-Rackspace. In m
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by dnsworks 16y ago
The only job I've had outside of technology, I worked two summers on a neighbor's farm, age 12 and 13. Half of the day I would shovel chicken manure, the other half I would "bail" hay and straw. This process consisted of standing in a ricke
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by dnsworks 16y ago
This reminds me of a guy I knew who wrote an ASM based OS for the m68k called Synthesis or Synthetix or something like that. It even had it's own window manager, and was apparently blazingly fast. It was especially as a developer station as
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by dnsworks 16y ago
Speaking of which, I'm hoping to visit my friend in Singapore in Sept or October, mind if I swing by and crash in your hallway or something? (or meet in Tokyo and show me around? :)
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by dnsworks 16y ago
It seems that in the past 3-4 months interest in becoming an angel investor has been popping up everywhere, kind of like a few years ago right before the real estate bubble popped and everybody wanted to become a real estate investor.
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by dnsworks 16y ago
How would you make a company around a webserver?
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by dnsworks 16y ago
If he hadn't, well you would have learned the hard way to have a strong laptop encryption policy, wouldn't you have?
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by dnsworks 16y ago
They go to tree church on Sunday, duh.
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by dnsworks 16y ago
* - how old they are* Why does their age matter? Their ability to deliver is what should matter. The first time I charged $100/hour as a consultant I was 18, I'm fairly confident that I never had a customer turn down my services due to the
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by dnsworks 16y ago
"What can I get for $2,000?" is an excellent question. As a consultant, I wish I'd get this question more often from cost-conscious customers rather than "how much is this going to cost me?", because the former is quite easy to quantify and

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