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by durana 18y ago
I couldn't find a figure on the number of registered HN users, so I used the recent number of daily unique IPs from http://ycombinator.com/newsnews.html . That number is 22,000. For a confidence level of 95% with a confidence interval of
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by durana 18y ago
"Gmail, and we thought it best to simply share our reliability metrics, which we measure as average uptime per user based on server-side error rates." If you are just using error rates from the requests that make it to the application then
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by durana 18y ago
I agree 100%. Another thing is people feel the need to eat until they feel full. Your stomach can stretch and contract, so obtaining that full feeling isn't really a great measure for determining how much you should eat. I'd say controll
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by durana 18y ago
I'd ask them to clarify what they mean by a crash. Is it a system crash or is it Apache going out to lunch or is it something else? A "crash" can mean so many different things because it is somewhat vague. I've seen plenty of cases where
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by durana 18y ago
I wonder if this message from Apple is actually real. I did a quick Google search for other instances "limited utility" rejections and didn't find any. There's been plenty of instances of fake controversial legal threats/rejection letters
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by durana 18y ago
I agree, if you don't know what you are doing then you can screw things up pretty good by building things from source. Although harder, you can still also screw things up installing software from OS vendors. Both approaches require care.
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by durana 18y ago
I've found that a good practice for building systems is not to rely on the software that comes with the OS for the specific task the system is being built for. When I can I always build task specific software from source, not because the s
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by durana 18y ago
I found it funny when half way through the book I realized what I held in my hands was a product of exactly what was described in the book. Whether you liked it or not, it sounds like you read it and I'll assume paid for it so that's proof
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by durana 18y ago
Looks good, its clean, its fast, and it returned good results. I'd agree the name isn't great and the initial text in the search text box should be reworded. Is this an example of what can be done with Intelliverb's hosted search service?