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by hartror 16y ago
"It makes no sense at all to try and regulate the profits of payday loans and pawn shops." I agreed with you up to that point. Regulating them IS the point of allowing them, as long as the laws aren't draconian this will stop the bulk of th
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by hartror 16y ago
Ssssh George will hear you, haven't we had our childhood raped enough as it is?!
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by hartror 16y ago
Damn I forgot how roguishly good looking Harrison Ford was back in the day.
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by hartror 16y ago
I wonder how slide 10 "Finacials" has matched with reality. Especially as the deck was created and used pre-GFC. Would love if one of the founders commented on that, though would be surprised if they did.
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by hartror 16y ago
"All in the Mind" is a fantastic show, main site has transcripts and audio from the recent shows as well as podcasts. http://www.abc.net.au/rn/allinthemind/
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by hartror 16y ago
+1 On consistency of hardware, I know a few mobile devs that were around pre-iPhone and they rejoiced over the ease of development. Previously they were testing on 10, 20, 30+ handsets.
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by hartror 16y ago
Thanks
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by hartror 16y ago
"To continue reading subscribe now" No
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by hartror 16y ago
The why would be useful but I would hardly say it is pointless. For example I understand the theories but I'm light on details given I have never implemented an encryption algorithm. Hmmm weekend project?
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by hartror 16y ago
"within 90 to 120 days" Maybe this tactic has something to do with product life cycle though I can't think what. Surely a phone has a longer shelf life than 3 months . .
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by hartror 16y ago
Put me in a cardboard box, bury me and plant a tree above me.
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by hartror 16y ago
+1 on accuracy of figures, Melbourne is pretty much the same.
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by hartror 16y ago
I've this happen a few times, seemingly minor actions snowball into life changing events. However it is always important to realise that these things aren't coincidence or luck. They are the cumulative result of many years of action. Take t
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by hartror 16y ago
While the article was interesting the first line "We did it. We solved one of the unsolved big SEO (Search Engine Optimization) mysteries of the modern time." had me reaching for the close button. Is it just me or is there a LOT of spin fro
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by hartror 16y ago
If it is anything like any start up I have ever heard of :P My point is that it is stupidly important to have good monitoring in place and I am surprised that one of the best known startups had a gaping hole in theirs.
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by hartror 16y ago
Like not having a massive downtime that gives their users a reason to try out some massive social network's offering that has already started eating their lunch? Oh wait no they didn't prioritize that. My point is, and perhaps the down vote
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by hartror 16y ago
Err you don't . . as the article states their usage and load pattern does. If you want the speed of keeping the DB in RAM you need the RAM available whether it is mongo, MySQL/NDB or memcache. (-1 for not RTFA)
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by hartror 16y ago
I'll put a vote in for Zabbix as a good option, it has saved us more times than I can count.
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by hartror 16y ago
Exactly. How the hell does a fast growing well funded 24 employee startup NOT have load monitoring on their database servers! Pay the 10c the hour for a micro EC2 instance and run Zabbix or one of the half dozen other awesome monitoring pac
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by hartror 16y ago
It looks right in my tests, the particles accelerate towards the OMFG with a large proportion hitting the OMFG in what looks like a perfect inelastic collision, that is they merge and the velocity and mass is added to OMFG. This creates a m
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by hartror 16y ago
Neat hack, the lesson most of us should draw from this though is avoid designs that use big images with alpha transparency as they are many kbs! If you have to you maybe able to use this someday . . . for some of your users.
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by hartror 16y ago
As much as I dislike scaremongering about attacks on aircraft this sort of thing does lower the barrier of entry so to speak especially for solo nutbags. Given that the information is freely available however the issue is with the ADS-B sys
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by hartror 16y ago
Well written article, I've never used select as Twisted casts a long shadow and has always satisfied my needs.
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by hartror 16y ago
My biggest bitch about paypal and subscriptions? They have a documented event for the end of a subscription (EOT) THAT DOESN'T EVER GET SENT! We had some unpaying subscribers hanging around for a few weeks before we noticed the money coming
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by hartror 16y ago
Modelling systems is hard, this is an interesting attempt but yes the lack of ANY sources for his assumptions and initial conditions means you cannot even begin to draw conclusions from this model. Hell the models I was exposed to at Uni di
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by hartror 16y ago
Confused. Why would replacing larger chunks of code be a problem?
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by hartror 16y ago
I am yet to be sold on using Cython or it's ilk but it is philosophical/personal preference thing rather than a commentary on the quality or usefulness of these projects. As I have no trouble switching code to C++ and integrating it with py
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by hartror 16y ago
These are great when you're worried about performant code: http://docs.python.org/library/profile.html http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonSpeed/PerformanceTips
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by hartror 16y ago
My programming knowledge base is strongest with C++ and Python. I always start writing projects in Python. Then if psyco hasn't gotten me the performance in the (often very small) sections of code that do the heavy lifting a quick C++ exten
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by hartror 16y ago
Odds of tabloid misquoting a scientist to sell more copy "100 per cent.

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