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by fuzzmeister 16y ago
"They switch to a philosophy major." This comment seems odd to me, as philosophy is another subject where a failure to sit down and really think about the topics at hand will leave you hopelessly lost, if the class is taught to any degree o
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by fuzzmeister 16y ago
As I said above, I can absolutely vouch for the veracity of this story. I talked to Mark the day he got his laptop stolen, and I was talking to him when he realized that it was still backing up to Backblaze.
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by fuzzmeister 16y ago
I talked to Mark the day he got his laptop stolen, this story is 100% true.
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by fuzzmeister 16y ago
As far as I'm aware, hacker had a positive meaning before some people started using it negatively, while hustler seems to have mainly been used negatively before some people starting using it positively.
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by fuzzmeister 16y ago
My proposal: stop using the word "hustler". While many people in the startup community have gotten used to the "aggressively active or enterprising person" definition, for most people, the first definition that comes to mind is "a person wh
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by fuzzmeister 16y ago
Just curious, why do you call EC2 a "slum"? We've had nothing but good experiences with it.
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by fuzzmeister 16y ago
Both Verizon and AT&T are using LTE for 4G, though, so Sprint will become the odd one out in that situation.
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by fuzzmeister 16y ago
I find AdSense ads (both on Google and on network sites) useful relatively often, I'd say I click one a week or so.
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by fuzzmeister 16y ago
ELB load balances very easily across availability zones. In fact, that pretty much seems to be the setup they expect you to use. It doesn't allow you to balance across regions, though, which may be what you mean.
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by fuzzmeister 16y ago
Yes, but I didn't post that because of this quote, which led to my overall confusion: "The physical significance of the Planck length, if any, is not yet known."
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by fuzzmeister 16y ago
"Space is usually considered infinitely divisible — given any two positions, there is always a position halfway between." I'm unsure if this can be extended to space, but I know that current theories state that there is a unit of time (the
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by fuzzmeister 16y ago
Is a multi-provider setup common? I certainly think Reddit should be on multiple availability zones within AWS, but spanning multiple providers seems hugely more difficult.
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by fuzzmeister 16y ago
That is entirely wrong. With AWS, we've built a multi-AZ load balanced infrastructure for very little time and money. Getting an equivalent setup out of our own hardware would have been orders of magnitude more expensive and time consuming.
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by fuzzmeister 16y ago
Exactly. While Amazon clearly tries to make single-zone reliability as good as possible, I think they expect customers to use a multi-AZ setup if they expect true reliability.
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by fuzzmeister 16y ago
Ah, good point.
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by fuzzmeister 16y ago
Fun fact: every single URL on the first page of results also has Apache directory listing enabled.
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by fuzzmeister 16y ago
Wow, is this really how bad the hate for Facebook and Zuckerberg has gotten on HN? To say that someone like Zuckerberg, whether you agree with him or not, has "no redeeming features" is simply ignorant. I'm all for reasonable debate about t
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by fuzzmeister 16y ago
I use a todo list app (Things) for everything except my work. The post is right that you tend to remember things that you care about, but unfortunately my time cannot be entirely filled with things I care about.
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by fuzzmeister 16y ago
Saying they have nothing to do with each other is entirely disingenuous. Blogs want comments to be tied to the commenter's identity. Facebook is by far the largest identity provider on the web. Thus, blogs tie comments to Facebook. While so
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by fuzzmeister 16y ago
Did you build the database of phone tree options yourself, or is there another place you're getting it from? Building such a database seems ridiculously time consuming.
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by fuzzmeister 16y ago
I have always found Gillmor's writing absolutely impenetrable. His posts meander and never seem to arrive at anything resembling a point. I almost feel like he intentionally avoids making points.
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by fuzzmeister 16y ago
Of course. I'm simply saying it makes them less vertically integrated.
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by fuzzmeister 16y ago
"Apple is the most vertically integrated company in the world." I struggle to see how that statement could be true for a company that outsources all of its manufacturing.
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by fuzzmeister 16y ago
Originally, but he now lives in Massachusetts.
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by fuzzmeister 16y ago
Not sure about most people, but I'd get motion sick after looking at a computer screen for more than 15 minutes on a bus. Wouldn't do great things for productivity.
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by fuzzmeister 16y ago
One suggestion: goal URLs should use a salted hash key, so that they aren't so easily guessed. Alternatively, implement some kind of access control so that you can only see goals you are a party to. Otherwise, seems great, I'm trying it out
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by fuzzmeister 16y ago
We're working on both the learn more page and the screenshots right now, thanks for the feedback. As for monetization, we're considering some kind of "sponsored questions" offering that could be used for both advertising and market research
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by fuzzmeister 16y ago
We'll change the about page, thanks for the feedback. We have a privacy policy, but I'm considering writing a more prominent, "human-readable" version of it. We definitely want to make people feel comfortable and reassure them that we aren'
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by fuzzmeister 16y ago
Our goal for Cloudy, at least right now, is to get as many people as possible using the app. When a user asks a question using Cloudy to a non-user, we send that friend the question by SMS, along with a short blurb to the effect of "Have an
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by fuzzmeister 16y ago
We actually didn't write the current title, we like to clearly differentiate ourselves from general Q&A services such as Quora. Unlike Quora, Yahoo Answers, etc, questions on Cloudy are structured (more comparable to a poll), asked to a

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