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by flyt 14y ago
They are carrying the mail for the government right now, and will eventually use this experience to go farther on their own.
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by flyt 14y ago
It's a step. This is the first time that a private company has ever docked with the International Space Station, a domain previously exclusive to a small club of federal governments.
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by flyt 14y ago
This number is based on users logging in through FB connect only. From the Techcrunch story: "According to AppData, 20K daily active users and 180K monthly active users log into Quora through Facebook Connect — Bear in mind that this is a s
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by flyt 14y ago
yea, that really killed Facebook in the early days.
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by flyt 14y ago
This is less "AWS" and more "S3/CloudFront". there are many other product features that EC2/R53/ELB/etc could use, but calling this AWS is a little too broad.
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by flyt 14y ago
youtube mirror (the original can't be skipped around in) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btQIHSApV_0
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by flyt 14y ago
http://www.quora.com/What-was-Adam-DAngelos-career-timeline-... Answered by Adam: "I was in college as an undergrad at California Institute of Technology full time until I graduated in 2006. Facebook launched in spring 2004. In summer 20
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by flyt 14y ago
Mark isn't going anywhere. He would be building Facebook if the pay was $0/yr. This is a token amount that covers his living expenses and little else.
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by flyt 14y ago
If you're good at something never do it for free.
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by flyt 14y ago
The carriers don't operate their own cell towers, they're run by an outside company that just leases space to ATT/VZW. Apple could work with this company to add their new network to the towers. This would prevent the MVNO situation where yo
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by flyt 14y ago
Remember this is the same person that created a video explaining how to cut two $60 Apple power cables to make an extremely dangerous, electrically unsafe $120 jump rope. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w9e1uWg8fM
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by flyt 14y ago
robtex.com is my go-to for DNS/AS/IP info. google.com domain report: http://www.robtex.com/dns/google.com.html#summary google AS peering info: http://www.robtex.com/as/as15169.html#peer netblock info: http://www.robtex.com/route/74.125
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by flyt 14y ago
Funded AND piloted the Deepsea Challenger to the deepest point on Earth. Cameron is legit.
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by flyt 14y ago
you mean https://www.facebook.com/feeds/api_status.php ?
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by flyt 14y ago
Facebook does exactly this. connect.facebook.net is a CNAME record to 'connect.facebook.net.edgekey.net' which is, of course, Akamai. Akamai is essentially doing what you describe CloudFront handling, except at a much larger scale and with
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by flyt 14y ago
Zuckerberg has accrued over 20 billion dollars of value. He's 27. Elon started out by starting a company "to let people pay to sell junk on eBay" and he did alright. Give Mark some time before rushing to judge.
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by flyt 15y ago
A shame that all of this data is collected "free" for Google, then people are made to pay to access it for their apps in the Maps API.
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by flyt 15y ago
Comcast is a content company. They own NBC Universal, among other broadcast and content production companies.
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by flyt 15y ago
No, but they do have an extremely fast and efficient tool for performing online schema changes to its huge MySQL deployment: https://www.facebook.com/notes/mysql-at-facebook/online-sche...
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by flyt 15y ago
Facebook is updating tens of thousands of servers with every push. "Rolling back" a release could take as long as a regular push and contribute to problems as the version in use diverges. Instead, FB has an aggressive and flexible internal
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by flyt 15y ago
Advice from a long-time sysadmin? Don't. Use Sendgrid, MailGun, or some other managed email provider and let them deal with the headaches of running mail servers. It's seriously not an industry you want to try and understand or deal with. S
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by flyt 15y ago
- Dell, HP, Compaq, Acer, etc didn't invent entirely new UI's for the computers they sold: everybody's OS looked basically identical and had similar interface elements and metaphors. - Screen sizes and resolutions increased slowly and didn'
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by flyt 15y ago
USAA recently added this functionality to their iOS app: Anybody can send money to anybody else with an email address.
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by flyt 15y ago
Facebook is a digital representation of people's real-world friend connections and social graph. It only makes sense to include people's children in that graph, as they're usually a pretty important part of people's lives.
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by flyt 15y ago
Google needs the cooperation of the content industry to make its media service, Google Play, anything approaching successful. If the choice is between censoring content and having a successful product then kowtowing to the other entities wi
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by flyt 15y ago
If OpenStreetMap ends up like the KHTML -> WebKit ascendancy then things could be very good for their team in the future.
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by flyt 15y ago
Huffington Post too: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/quora/
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by flyt 15y ago
These answers are republished by Quora to Forbes, with permission from the original authors. See this for more info: http://www.quora.com/How-does-Forbes-decide-which-Quora-answ...
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by flyt 15y ago
Apple is the most valuable company in the entire US economy, sets hardware and software trends for our industry, and is interesting to the broader news media for their brand value and widespread products people use every day. Everything the
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by flyt 15y ago
bezels, complicated and difficult to configure LOM systems usually tied to proprietary vendor management systems, fiddly components that are easy to optimize and build once but that introduce extra overhead over long-term maintenance (i.e.

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