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by jarcoal 14y ago
It definitely is, but AWS has made it clear they will be rolling out multiple IPs per EC2 instance this year. The downsides of not being on EC2 these days are many. You wouldn't be able to offer the fleet of bonus services that Heroku can
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by jarcoal 14y ago
Domains that resolve to an IP... I'm not 100% sure how they are configured behind the scenes, but the ELBs have a bunch of physical IPs wired into them, so they can SSL terminate for many domains, something that EC2 instances cannot (curren
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by jarcoal 14y ago
It's because they have to provision an Elastic Load Balancer to sit in front of your app. That's the only way they can acquire additional IP addresses from AWS. They make no money on this arrangement, they are simply passing the ELB costs
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by jarcoal 14y ago
I would argue it's because they've become the default freebie phone.
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by jarcoal 14y ago
Good to know! Thanks
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by jarcoal 14y ago
I realize that the shared databases weren't really designed for production, but I used them for many projects in production, and they worked great. They included free backups, so I just took snapshots often and figured if they zapped one,
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by jarcoal 14y ago
Personal information becomes public when it's not properly secured and then broadcasted out into the world... even if the user doesn't understand it's happening. I agree that it's not a perfect analogy, but it is quite a bit closer than bei
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by jarcoal 14y ago
That is not a valid comparison at all... would you go after Google for smelling what people are cooking from the street?
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by jarcoal 14y ago
Your initial post is the distraction. It doesn't address the main point of the article at all, it should have been posted in the NYT thread. This heart of this post begins at "But to my promised personal reflections"
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by jarcoal 15y ago
Congrats! Feel free to link to it if you'd like.
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Who is living off their (bootstrapped) startup fulltime?
56 points by jarcoal 15y ago|20 comments
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by jarcoal 15y ago
Normal Gmail is working for me, but one of apps accounts is throwing 500s.
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by jarcoal 15y ago
Low fees & convenience, I suppose.
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by jarcoal 15y ago
As far as I know, they are using ACH's to get money in and out of the service (which has the disadvantage of taking a couple days, hence Dwolla Instant). The low fees are simply their differentiation technique.
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by jarcoal 15y ago
Finished the second release of my appointment scheduling software: https://www.appointlet.com/
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by jarcoal 15y ago
Same. Browsers need a X-DO-NOT-PRANK header.
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by jarcoal 15y ago
~50% of the smartphone market vs ~1% of the desktop market? I certainly sympathize, but that's the excuse.
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by jarcoal 15y ago
I definitely understand why the public isn't a big fan of his anymore, but I can't help remember back to The Screen Savers, and the early days of digg, when he was really someone I looked up to.
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by jarcoal 15y ago
I couldn't agree more. It had a few more bugs than I would like when it shipped, but the feature set is fantastic. It's a weird feeling using someone else's machine that is still on an earlier version of the OS.
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by jarcoal 15y ago
I definitely think the docs should be better, but it's not really that much code to read through. The entire thing is maybe 1000 lines of code. Here it is, although the code is somewhat mixed with the old, function based, generic views: h
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by jarcoal 15y ago
Django's documentation is indeed terrible for class based views, but I encourage any developers that have had trouble reading through it to just take a look at the source. I found it to be much easier to learn that way.
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by jarcoal 15y ago
"300DPI LCD" doesn't exactly roll off the tongue :)
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by jarcoal 15y ago
Another, similar, technique is checking for a NOBOT cookie and if it doesn't exist, serve up a page that uses javascript to set the cookie, then reloads. This requires the bot to interpret javascript, and it can easily be configured in ngin
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by jarcoal 15y ago
In this world, in this moment, if you want companies to "require" all their suppliers, and their supplier's suppliers, and so on, to have safe working conditions, then computers won't be manufactured. Not a single one, from any brand. Hate
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by jarcoal 15y ago
What a bummer. Amazon advertises EBS as being both faster and more reliable, but it sounds like they are delivering neither.
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by jarcoal 15y ago
I can second this. When I first found out about node, I wanted to write all my web apps in it. I quickly found out that made no sense at all. It might be a bit more performant than Django (my go to framework), but the amount of time it to
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by jarcoal 15y ago
I hope so as well. Something Tim said in the conference call yesterday made me pretty hopeful. He implied that the iPad was cannibalizing their own laptop sales, but that he didn't really care. Apple has done a fantastic job in the past o
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by jarcoal 15y ago
As a web developer is pains me to say this, but I think that this is a good thing. The web moves so slowly; it will never keep up with native apps. Some people are definitely concerned this leaves us in a less open world, but IMO, we'll be
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by jarcoal 15y ago
I don't think the web can ever be as fast moving as a native environment. That's one of the major downfalls with being compatible with all platforms.
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by jarcoal 15y ago
I could be mistaken, but that feature only applies to the creation of cookies by third parties. If you visit facebook.com, a cookie will be set, then later when you visit another site with a facebook widget, it WILL send that cookie that wa

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