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by gduffy 17y ago
We take data privacy very seriously. The online service component is the key to customer adoption of network cameras, because it is the only way for a non-technical user to have a camera up and running in less than 30 seconds.
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by gduffy 17y ago
Right now, no, but it's in the works. We want to make sure that quality of service is just as good for non-U.S. customers before we ship anything internationally.
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by gduffy 17y ago
No, it's not open source. We use a custom H.264 encoder.
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by gduffy 17y ago
Hey guys, in order to make this post more hacker-ish, I'm going to answer any technical questions I can here. I used to be the Principal Engineer at Xobni, so while I'm not a YC alum I've been around these parts for a little while :)
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Dropcam: Another fire-and-forget camera system(crunchgear.com)
6 points by gduffy 17y ago|8 comments
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by gduffy 17y ago
Huh? There is no cost for an elastic IP address when it is in use.
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by gduffy 17y ago
Where do you get "less than 50k"?
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by gduffy 17y ago
That .NET 3.0 has been around since 2006 is a red herring. What really matters is the percentage of Windows machines that have it installed. I know a few companies that write desktop .NET software, and they can't use WPF unless they add ~50
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by gduffy 18y ago
You should qt-faststart that .mov so it starts playing immediately! Available in ffmpeg: http://svn.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg/trunk/tools/qt-faststart.c?vi... There are native versions for OS X and Adobe AIR out there.
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by gduffy 18y ago
I watched this video a while ago, so I don't remember it exactly, but there is clearly something dubious behind the money-creating power governments give to banks. As a society, we do want to grant promissory notes to encourage growth. Howe
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by gduffy 18y ago
Does the web console (at manage.slicehost.com) still work?
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by gduffy 18y ago
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/mpec/K08/K08T50.html "The absolute magnitude indicates that the object will not survive passage through the atmosphere."
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by gduffy 18y ago
It's a CNAME, and I guess the hacker news web server doesn't care what the HTTP host header says. www.hackerne.ws. 3565 IN CNAME news.ycombinator.com. news.ycombinator.com. 4235 IN A 67.15.104.17
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by gduffy 18y ago
Actually, I'm not a founder, and Gabor's a friend of mine. He sits right across from me at work (he hasn't left yet). He thought it was funny, since we often talk about how much people exaggerate the various barriers to building a successfu
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by gduffy 18y ago
I feel like it's a good idea to have a separate office from where you live, but why don't more (2-3 person) startups use the library for an office? It's quiet, you can rent conference rooms and equipment by the hour, and there's free wifi.
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The real cost of starting a startup?(blog.gregduffy.com)
17 points by gduffy 18y ago|13 comments
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Hello, World: Meet Xobni(gaborcselle.com)
16 points by gduffy 18y ago|5 comments
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by gduffy 18y ago
The blog you link to, http://blogs.king5.com/archives/2008/01/computer_glitch.html , says that the error was due to a corrupted file (assuming this means for the firework control software).
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by gduffy 18y ago
exists ⇒ ¬ie-only I think that's the only way I can put it without getting into trouble :)
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by gduffy 18y ago
Depends on machine architecture.
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by gduffy 18y ago
Visual Studio guy was likely me. I actually didn't resize the form even once; maybe you're just using some poetic license there. Since the internet connection was slow, I couldn't get to my server, so I decided to do one of my favorite 'pro
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by gduffy 19y ago
Maybe they need to cache their handlers: http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/requestsandappc... I think this might be the reason they are using so much CPU time as well.
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by gduffy 19y ago
What's wrong with them?
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by gduffy 19y ago
I've often thought about putting together a good mix of infrastructure software into one distro/appliance. You could provide: - Router - VPN - VoIP - Email - Version control - Issue tracker - Wiki - File server/SMB/FTP - Etc. You could save
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by gduffy 19y ago
If someone would just do the signing-dongle thing in a user friendly way, maybe plugging/unplugging that is closer to authenticating the user ('something they have': the dongle, 'something they know': a passphrase to activate the dongle on
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by gduffy 19y ago
Use the source, Luke. That's better than an MD5 any day of the week. Didn't you know MD5 is broken anyway? http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/03/more_hash_func... :)
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by gduffy 19y ago
Are they accessing pages, or just opening connections? Use netstat to see what state the connections are in. Make sure syncookies are enabled if they are just opening lots of connections ( http://cr.yp.to/syncookies.html ). You can limit pa
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by gduffy 19y ago
Though I do use VS a lot, I actually do use vim -- and awk, grep, sed, etc -- when VS/Resharper can't do the tricks I want. PuttyCyg/Cygwin provides a nice shell + unix tools on Windows.
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by gduffy 19y ago
Try right clicking on their picture :) -Greg from Xobni
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by gduffy 19y ago
It's terribly more efficient to send out generic holiday wishes to everyone and stop associating with anyone who gets too offended that you didn't conform to their particular brand of holiday. I really don't want to keep a 6 billion row spr

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