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by icky 19y ago
> So at 4 Mongrels a virtualized server I'd need 250 to serve 1K simulataneous users. Depends on how simultaneous they really are. Are we talking 1000 hits per second? Or are we talking about 1000 unique people viewing some portion of
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by icky 19y ago
Yes. Your English usage is better than the author's.
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by icky 19y ago
> Why not just validate it server side? A simple server side script could pull the JavaScript from the advertiser, verify it, and pass it on to the client. See my addendum: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=101149
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by icky 19y ago
The intangible anti-benefits of living in a dark-ages theocracy are probably worth a lot of negative money, especially to creative-thinker types. Witness, on the other end of the scale, how much people are willing to pay for a crappy loft i
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by icky 19y ago
Bingo.
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by icky 19y ago
Is she the one with the time-travel startup? ;-)
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by icky 19y ago
That could work. See also my addendum, which would work well with your caching scheme.
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by icky 19y ago
An addendum: If the advertiser is okay with it, you could have it work like this: 1. Client makes HTTP GET request from the site's server. (1a. If the page has to load before the advertisement does, the site server returns immediately and t
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by icky 19y ago
Maybe a workaround: 1. Ad server signs the text of the javascript code with an HMAC-style digest with a shared (private) key. Maybe the first line of the text is the hash of the rest of it. (Possibly also an advertiser-id jammed in there
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by icky 19y ago
'M-x doctor' made them do it... ;-)
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by icky 19y ago
Ah, okay. I thought you were using all three at the same time, which sounds like a big headache for dubious benefit. :-)
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by icky 19y ago
Why the heterogeneous environment?
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by icky 19y ago
I like the one that comes with Linux... ;-)
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by icky 19y ago
Because it's Hacker News, not Designer Gallery.
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by icky 19y ago
> The number of squares on a chessboard is 204 The number of squares on a chessboard is infinite, if you don't limit yourself to edges already drawn for you.
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by icky 19y ago
Writing code is only half of "doing a startup".
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by icky 19y ago
I think any keyboards made later couldn't help but suck less than those abominations.
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by icky 19y ago
Seconded. If you really want a 100-year language, then your chief concern is getting it widely-adopted, and a permissive license like MIT is just the ticket.
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by icky 19y ago
There's the rub: measuring production time needs to take into account maintenance time!
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by icky 19y ago
Postal code for Hawaii.
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by icky 19y ago
My guess is that it's a fake, but it happens to coincide with the actual planned keynote anyway. ;P
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by icky 19y ago
> and I should be able to say just (compare > karma). I suggest you implement a terse syntax for partial-apply. For my own pet lisps, I use {}. (You are welcome to steal it ;-) So {+ 1} would expand to (in scheme) something like (l
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by icky 19y ago
Non-paradox, since each non-black object that is not a raven will infinitesimally increase your belief in the proposition, until you find a counterexample or exhaust the set of all non-black objects. The reaseon that finding a black raven i
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by icky 19y ago
It's really the bad clients that force you to become a take-no-prisoners mercenary consultant. Other fun things (none of which is legal advice!): - Never, ever, ever, sign an indemnity clause. That's basically an agreement to go bankrupt i
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by icky 19y ago
Being 23 years old is a neat trick, but you can only do it once.
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by icky 19y ago
Coffee. Failing that, charge an on-site per-diem, or a higher on-site rate. Then the client will all of a sudden really not mind at all that you're doing nearly all the work from home, and you have much more flexibility with your hours and
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by icky 19y ago
If you do want to play with free tools, try haXe and swfmill.
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by icky 19y ago
I don't believe he was ever a COBOL expert, since COBOL is basically stripped-down English with the added requirements of syntax, logic, and correct spelling.
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by icky 19y ago
After reading the article, all is indeed forgiven. Though you might want to consider rebranding to something less porny. ;-)
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by icky 19y ago
Naturally, you will pardon my wariness of clicking a link to "lovemytool.com".

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