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by imperialWicket 13y ago
My preference is to make a base ami that's configured with puppet and a couple core user/keys. I make this instance automatically hit our puppetmaster and use things like security_groups and user data to figure out what type of node it is.
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by imperialWicket 13y ago
I wanted to try Asgard and couldn't believe no one had put anything like this together yet. I found a couple AMIs, but quick searches didn't yield any real data on them. Hope this helps a few people, let me know if you spot bugs.
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by imperialWicket 13y ago
Somewhat unrelated rant: I'm liking zenpayroll so far, but going to a payroll site (even the blog) and getting mixed https/http content raises flags for me. If the blog doesn't need to be SSL, don't use SSL. If you want the blog to use SSL
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by imperialWicket 14y ago
In a lot of cases you still come out net positive even if you trash the particular service during the latter half of 3 year term. The lesson is more that you should pay attention to when the last reduction occurred for a given service, and
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by imperialWicket 14y ago
I just experienced substantial delays on a new Lenovo machine, too. Great machine (W530) after the wait, but the delays were unexpected and not welcome.
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by imperialWicket 14y ago
If you're going to run ubuntu as a primary OS, the Bonobo Extreme is worth investigating from system76. I have a high-end Latitude E65* without any issues, and a Thinkpad W530 that is also working well - both are running CrunchBang. I didn'
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by imperialWicket 14y ago
It's difficult to weigh costs once you're at a static scale, but while bandwidth and storage is growing, cloud services tend to offer substantial savings. In this case, the cost benefits for S3 compared to owning your own servers are tremen
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by imperialWicket 14y ago
'Save money.' is the first reason on the page...
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by imperialWicket 14y ago
This is a great write-up. Off-topic, but I'm wondering what bottlenecks you encountered with the straight Erlang + Mnesia prototype?
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by imperialWicket 14y ago
Justin Bieber (4) - admittedly an edge case, but a popular candidate without close ties (yet). It also includes the "classical baby i ' m grown up now the poetry show" link, with which I wasn't previously familiar.
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by imperialWicket 14y ago
It's still not original, but one might assume that a native English speaker elected to combine "Next" and "Phone" - two somewhat common-place terms that appropriately define his concept. But you are right, Apple would probably sue him for u
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by imperialWicket 14y ago
107.20.134.47
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by imperialWicket 14y ago
I've only had a couple situations where I needed enough subdomains to warrant the wildcard cert. $10/yr for RapidSSL through namecheap, most wildcard certs are at least 100-ish; I usually only need 5-6 subdomains and it's cheaper to just bu
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by imperialWicket 14y ago
This is precisely the reason why you let the user bypass your check with a confirmation. It's likely that most of your users who enter something without a period made a mistake. If someone is using an address like 'john@dk', I think they'd
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by imperialWicket 14y ago
This technique is hinted about, and I don't claim it as my own creation. I think the easiest (maybe not the best) route for both devs and users is: [submit] does email address have a '@' and a '.' after that? yes -> send a validation em
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by imperialWicket 14y ago
Exactly - that's much more succinct than I put it. Comparatively, it's not often that a Linux issue is solved by those same steps (or any given set of steps - there's just more variation).
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by imperialWicket 14y ago
This flame ignites periodically, and I'm always left wondering when exactly the Linux desktop died? Some have noted similar aspects already, but here's my 2 cents: I'm on Linux now (GNU/Linux, maybe lump BSD in there too, I'm using "Linux")
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by imperialWicket 14y ago
This is spot on. I love the soft-leather grid notebooks from miquelrius (no affiliation whatsoever, but I always get comments about them): http://www.shopmiquelrius.com/servlet/the-553/Flexible-Noteb... I always keep one of those handy, a
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by imperialWicket 14y ago
"before the iPhone we were using tiny screens with Nokia SMS interfaces or Motorla RAZR" Some of us may have been, but technically speaking that's not true. Samsung, LG, Motorola, and Nokia all had high end devices available with large touc
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by imperialWicket 14y ago
The first point still stands - I like the product. I also appreciate the humility angle. Maybe an easter egg, buried on the about page?
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by imperialWicket 14y ago
I think this is excellent, and that the general consensus here to add more data structure and drilling/reporting is a great idea. I was a little disappointed that there isn't an auto-biographical interview. The meta post of "We Use That Use
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by imperialWicket 14y ago
Most paper isn't #fff, and most black inks don't appear as #000. Also, I think that tactic opens the debate to aspects of technology, manufacturing, and cost analysis. I agree that painting isn't the most optimal tool for pushing this point
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by imperialWicket 14y ago
The numbers suggest that more and more users are going to be hitting the web on mobile devices (numbers vary a bit, but the consensus seems to be close to doubling annually and around 10% at the moment). It seems to me that it's not a quest
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by imperialWicket 14y ago
Agreed. Spending time generating aliases for commonly used commands and scripting commands together to form new (possibly more comfortable) command-wording are both fine once you use the product enough to learn which aliases and scripts wou
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by imperialWicket 14y ago
Another nReducer here - we're on a distributed team, and bootstrapping. Since making a team-wide move was not a possibility for us, nReduce has been an amazing opportunity. Great work so far from the nReduce team, and the startup team inter
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by imperialWicket 14y ago
At some level, I can agree with this sentiment. You don't know where the servers are, you can't see the cables, and a lot of things are just plainly out of your control. TL;DR: AWS can realistically provide high-enough availability for most
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by imperialWicket 14y ago
I think if this is used with appropriate limitations and caution, it can add to a site's presence in a positive way. All the UI concerns already listed are definitely valid, though - it's easy to take this too far. There are quite a few dec
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by imperialWicket 14y ago
I've been using a diy standing desk for almost a year, and was in a cube that I repositioned to standing height for nearly 12 months before that. I don't think I'll ever go back. I've posted this here before, but in case newcomers are inter
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by imperialWicket 14y ago
Drafting chairs work well - though it adds to the cost of the 'desk'.

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