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by dotBen 15y ago
Well the VPS's are running on colo'd racks (and thus you're probably 2 or 3 steps of escalation further away from the DC operator). Hurricane Electric in Fremont has had issues with power and previously with wide-scale IP block blacklisting
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by dotBen 15y ago
Another +1 for Linode. I especially enjoy their DNS management which is included in the price (many providers don't offer/charge more for). They use each of their datacenter presences to redundantly host the DNS zones, so my domains have 5
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by dotBen 15y ago
Well to be clear, this post is examining Budget VPS's (aka "Low End Boxes"), ie <$10/m. You can use LEB's to get a good geo-spread if you need to do network topography examination, ping/traceroute/looking-glass from multiple nodes, etc.
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by dotBen 15y ago
It might in general, but Reddit's bottleneck might be their own servers. We downgraded a 50Mbps Comcast line to a 25Mbps line and I honestly couldn't see much difference in terms of actual page load time, file download speeds etc but we sav
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by dotBen 15y ago
It looks like BlackHawk Network is the company behind the gift cards stands that have flourished in grocery stores Which I believe is the same company that actually runs and controls the operations for these cards too (I don't have time t
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by dotBen 15y ago
Sprint are changing their terms significantly enough here that you can use this to break your contract with them if you so wish, without paying a break-off charge. The FCC says that if a carrier changes their contractual terms and you are m
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by dotBen 15y ago
And why we should write our recipes (code) carefully to imply intent such that dependencies like this are not created unnecessarily. Consider: "Add one onion", vs "Dip piece of onion in mixture until it begins to fry" Latter clearly indicat
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by dotBen 15y ago
I have it on good authority that converting your residential account to a business account (~25% more expensive) will 'remove' Comcast's bandwidth limits (or have them turn a blind eye, etc). If you don't want to pay the extra, often downgr
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by dotBen 15y ago
We started Blogic to cure the headache of recreating your website's theme on an entirely separate blogging platform such as WordPress ..then I would urge you to question why you've gone and built your own proprietary blog system and not j
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Google steps up its privacy game, launches Good To Know(zdnet.com)
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by dotBen 15y ago
actually....... that just changed very recently. The World Service is now funded from the license fee combined with commercial revenues (eg selling World Service news to NPR). In some ways it is a good thing that the government is not fun
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by dotBen 15y ago
But can't the free market channels and services work just as well? Nope. I've also worked for Rupert Murdoch and other private media entities. Free market is what got as the phone hacking scandal to give one example (there are countless)
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by dotBen 15y ago
You clearly have no freaking idea what the BBC does if you think it is 'a TV channel'.
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by dotBen 15y ago
There aren't many other products with that kind of fee-structure. (In the UK) if Bob drives a car and doesn't pay for insurance he will get fined or go to prison. Yet Ann can ride her bike, crash into a pedestrian cross the street while
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by dotBen 15y ago
I worked at BBC between 2000-2006 I never saw a biscuit in a meeting, let alone ate one - although I'm sure thats because I was at the most junior level of the organization at the time (year 2000). But let's just calm down a little over thi
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by dotBen 15y ago
I've never presented myself as a "proper" lawyer or improper lawyer :) The problem with "pissing matches" with in-house counsel is that they can happen even when you're 100% in the legal right. Anyone can send you a C&D and threaten you
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by dotBen 15y ago
Some employers do have clauses in their employment contracts saying that you cannot invite your former co-workers to leave and come work with/for you for a certain amount of time after you leave. Yes, but depending on the state you live i
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by dotBen 15y ago
There are lots of reasons why their travel expenses could be so high - I don't think it moves the conversation forward to suggest arbitrary reasons without some specific proof. It's also worth noting the foundation has had issues to expense
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by dotBen 15y ago
Your wording is very vague but I'm going to assume when you say 'your firm wants your home-project', you mean they want to buy it, rather than they are demanding you hand it over under some kind of IP rights squabble. Do you want cash and/o
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by dotBen 15y ago
It already happens, and in this era it's somewhat impossible for them not to. One of the pressures here is RIM is Canadian and even so even if the DoS/DoD is running their own BIS servers, there is still some issue with this all running on
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by dotBen 15y ago
I didn't write the original comment being referred to but I reserve the right to drop the F bomb where appropriate. This is real life, we're adults, and it is possible to communicate and deliver an astute/sophisticated/poignant perspective
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by dotBen 15y ago
Thank you for your answer - it does sound like you've tried hard to overcome the issues and I'm sorry I've not yet tried your app. How does this work if I have my phone set to turn off after x mins of activity and/or screen lock?
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by dotBen 15y ago
We're laser focused on texting while driving right now, it's the one big use case for voice commands. Regardless of whether your app is same/better/worse than Siri, please please please don't pursue a use case around texting while driving
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by dotBen 15y ago
Coderdude (I like HackerThings, btw). I'm not anti Facebook. I'm just tired of the complacency the company is showing towards it's users (and FB app developers) at the moment. More than happy to trade karma to express my view, neg vote away
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by dotBen 15y ago
F' these guys. Really. There's nothing here that's orientated around doing what's best for the user (C'mon Zuck, I thought that was your mantra) - * we know from Jeff Verkoeyen that this app has been V1 ready for some time * the delay wa
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by dotBen 15y ago
Parker's point you missed with native apps is "grey" music files existing locally on the user's computer. They could be completely pirated/illegal but as a player that isn't your liability - yet you can provide functionality (playing), glea
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by dotBen 15y ago
What is most interesting here is that Oracle published the financial deck that Autonomy gave to Oracle! OMG. I'm sure there was no NDA signed, but it's highly unprofessional. Also, I'm stil not clear why there is anything wrong with Autono
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by dotBen 15y ago
We do need a good Startup Visa but I don't think the majority of folks working at out-sourcing companies are really the audience. They tend to be risk averse and instead value working for a blue chip client for a steady salary. (I'm a for
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by dotBen 15y ago
So I work in a niche consulting area (helping companies build out developer platforms). I like to earn the most money I can, so I tend to only work with public companies, large corporations, etc because they can afford to pay the most. Sta
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by dotBen 15y ago
Oh I see, sorry - I didn't actually click through otherwise I'd have seen that :P You should definitely check out the excellent Adafruit Industries for similar geeky goodies ( http://www.adafruit.com/ )

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