film42

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   by film42 14y ago

   He did say they were all used, but still, that has to be a decent chunk of change.
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   by film42 14y ago

   Even if someone considers this a 'better' UI than iOS or Android (I personally don't), there's no point in switching because as soon as you do, that $200+ you've spent over the last 4 years on apps is gone forever and you'll only get less q
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   Fun with a few 9V batteries. (244 of them) [video](youtube.com)

   5 points by film42 14y ago|2 comments
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   by film42 14y ago

   I think there's a lesson here about how proper caching really gives life to weaker hardware. I only bring this up because I remember when the term "the digg effect" was used for the first time. I also remember people testing services like M
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   by film42 14y ago

   I couldn't live without AWS or my litte VPS. As a developer and fellow HN fan, I'm always reading about the latest frameworks and projects. I love demoing them, but I feel it's risky on my laptop because the 500GB I have fills up quick if I
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   by film42 14y ago

   I will need to wait for his local news to confirm the story before I will donate. I trust him, but you can't just say I need all of your money without proof, that's like a certain Nigerian prince. I really hope this is fake because its real
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   by film42 14y ago

   This is 100% accurate. My point was that S3 is good at being scalable infinitely, but you can use low-end hardware to scale up to point x for storage. This will be small and fail quickly when it comes to media companies, but for most web ap
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   by film42 14y ago

   Very true, and that's why S3 is excellent, but I still feel there's a lot of value in using low-end servers until you're running at a large enough scale where redundancy actually matters (not just we should use this cause it's what everyone
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   by film42 14y ago

   I use around 100GB of it, but at $15/m I don't consider that a wasted 400GB, instead it's just available for tunneling.
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    by film42 14y ago

    I become more and more amazed at the price of storage but in the same breath I am still horrified at the price of data at scale. Right now I have a VPS at Carat Networks to throw crap on and I pay $15/m. For that I get 50GB of space and 500
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    by film42 14y ago

    You can kind of see it live with the last shot. Here's the link: http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7s2vzagcl1qgtzil.jpg
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    by film42 14y ago

    Is it just me or does it seem like everyone's stack is moving away from Rails? I mean, it's a great solution to many problems, I just feel that there's a lot more platforms that offer you even better customization and leave a far smaller fo