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by dotBen 14y ago
Er, how would paying someone 25/hr pass the required market rate salary component of the H1B application? There is now a list of H1B jobs an the average pay which the petitioner must prove they are paying above. Also, how does a person beco
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Search for "PRIVATE KEY" on new GitHub Search(github.com)
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If anyone still needs convincing these CDN'd JS lib are a bad design pattern, check out this presentation from 2012's Black Hat (and also DEFCON) on MITM attacks on them that persist after the user has been exposed (due to indefinite cachin
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by dotBen 14y ago
"The point being missed is that Google might simply not have enough credit cards." Or, perhaps Android users just don't wish to be nickle and dimed into buying stuff. Cynical view, but even myself as a v affluent individual + owner and lo
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by dotBen 14y ago
As it goes, Linode has an amazing DNS service bundled with their instances - replicated between all their international datacenters. If you host with Linode I can't see why you wouldn't use it, unless you are just futzing/curious to roll yo
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by dotBen 14y ago
Travel hack: as the article points out, Expedia take 25% cut of the booking rate, which is usually the same a the hotel's direct rate. Because the hotel will make more profit from you, you have a higher chance of getting a room upgrade at t
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by dotBen 14y ago
Same here too
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by dotBen 14y ago
Just remember this list is not based on meritocracy, most/all these people will have publicists and/or their startups will have "good" PR firm representation. If you secretly wish you were on this list but don't have the above then you are
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by dotBen 14y ago
so, as it happens Bill Boebel (one of the founders of MailTrust/WebMail.us) is an investor and board member of my startup WP Engine ;) To be fair, Google Apps for Business didn't get going until 2007 which is also the year Rackspace acqui
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by dotBen 14y ago
"Google Apps offering was a substantial value" ...yet you are not prepared to pay financially in exchange for that value, and even convey disappointment when the free provision of that value is ceased. blowing your comment out of context,
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by dotBen 14y ago
Contrarian view... by offering <50 email accounts for free, Google essentially destroyed the market for any other startups or companies to come into the market and offer non-enterprise B2B email services... thus limiting competition and
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by dotBen 14y ago
Linode keeps instances homogeneous, so only the same type/size of instance exists on a given bare-metal machine. Unless that's changed, that would mean that all instances running on a given machine share the same CPU Priority, there will ju
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by dotBen 14y ago
Unless you feel you can dispute it, the jurisdiction for your use of Facebook and the jurisdiction underwhich you agreed to use Facebook is Santa Clara County, Calfiornia, United States. See 16.1 in https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms Al
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by dotBen 14y ago
> SBUX is already a luxury brand Not for an SF, LA and NY market (+ other worldwide destinations). In the same way that BMW is a luxury brand, except to those who want to buy Ferrari and Bently. These people have even more money to
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by dotBen 14y ago
There are Blue Bottle franchises and Blue Bottle cafes - notably Mint Plaza (off 5th), Ferry Building, and Linden Ally (also Emeryville @ their roast plant). Mint Plaza, their flagship cafe, is modeled very up-scale and is about the enjoyme
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by dotBen 14y ago
As an aside, I'm very confident Starbucks will acquire Blue Bottle Coffee in the next 18 months-2 years. By raising venture funding they are signaling they are looking for some kind of shareholder return/exit. The quality of the coffee, plu
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by dotBen 14y ago
Why wouldn't you want to host your WordPress blog at a Managed WordPress Host like ZippyKid, Web Synthesis or WP Engine?
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by dotBen 14y ago
Yes, I don't believe there are physically no more Nexus 4's left to be sold. It's a PR/Marketing ploy, a good one and if I was in Google's shoes it's exactly what I would be doing too. Anyone who thinks this is Google's coders not able to t
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by dotBen 14y ago
People build self-service businesses because they don't want to build a sales team and/or be able to keep their price point competitive. If everyone emailed in wanting pre-sales and discounts the price would go up because there would need t
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by dotBen 14y ago
> We ask for a discount on every transaction with a 3rd party our business makes I'm curious to learn why you do that? On "contact a sales person" type sales I can understand but you use the term 'transaction' which implies you are
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by dotBen 14y ago
Linode makes it easy to move instances around to different regions - at the hypervisor level it's just a command to move a Xen instance within their network of DCs. Moving between vendors is always going to require more testing/configuring/
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by dotBen 14y ago
To address this point raised by many... you're glazing over the difference between support and consultancy. Many companies provide both but charge extra for the latter. You quote 'we can help you track down and troubleshoot WordPress issue
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by dotBen 14y ago
Also, to add, most customers actually don't run via NAS - we have /nas/ in the paths for other historical reasons.
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by dotBen 14y ago
"The (strong) implication being that any WordPress configuration will perform better on WPEngine than on an alternative hosting platform." No, there's no inference or implication that any (ie regardless of how its built) WordPress confi
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by dotBen 14y ago
totally, and support coverage when he needed it (noting he's in Australia so totally different timezone to WP Engine business hours) would have also saved the day. I'm incredibly proud of the business the team has built, and know we are sti
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by dotBen 14y ago
welcome to my morning ;)
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There's a fair amount of criticism flying around about us on this thread, but that's one I can't make any apologies over. There's all sorts of interesting things we're doing with NFS, along with caching layers, that ensure this is never a b
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by dotBen 14y ago
So we don't apply the caching stuff to the staging server because the purpose of the staging server is to stage content and test new plugins and themes. We invented this feature in response to bloggers and site owners who wanted to be able
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by dotBen 14y ago
Ben, one of the co-founders of WP Engine here and as someone wrote below[1] - yes, this isn't the most wonderful thing to wake up to in the morning and sort out while still in your PJ's ;) Ok, so first and foremost I am incredibly sorry, Ja
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by dotBen 14y ago
Well, you chopped off half of what I said and miss-quoted me in the process. I said there was no real advantage to starting an operations/infrastructure-focused company in SF Bay Area. I pointed out that for social, in particular, SF/SV i

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