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by jbyers 17y ago
We use nginx 0.7.x as a load balancer and have no complaints. A pair balance 25M+ requests a day. It's certainly not a full-featured load balancer -- nothing like the visibility and control you get with haproxy or similar -- but for us it'
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by jbyers 17y ago
I'd love for someone to keep track of how long founders stay at their acquirer. Anyone know if this data exists for technology acquisitions?
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We do this to the tune of a million events a day (not pageviews, actual UI interactions) and it works well, especially given the $0 price tag. What's lacking is event correlation of the kind that KissMetrics and others support: how many us
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by jbyers 17y ago
Hitchens would be much more readable if he cut the overwrought (and parenthesized) banter by a third.
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30,000 people who spent $200 on a toy puzzle is by no means a small number. Luxury goods purchases follow a power law, and the value of capturing a portion of the fat side of that curve is huge. If they're willing to spend $200 on a puzzl
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"Q: Who created SpriteMe? A: SpriteMe was created by Steve Souders" - http://spriteme.org/faq.php Passes the @google.com test, though as with other projects, not clear the level of Google affiliation.
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I looked at about 10 of these that I hadn't seen before, and they're all either google-foo projects or their developers have @google.com email addresses.
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Dupe of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1000404 URLs didn't match because of Google Analytics tracking cruft. Curious to know how bad the dupe-URL problem is on HN.
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Three little words I want to hear from every one of our service providers in 2010: Multi-Factor Authentication (We're a Dynect customer too.)
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Twitter Update on DNS Disruption(blog.twitter.com)
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...and it's offline. Whole repo now 404s. [edit] Appears Aaron is re-importing the tree as I type. Paths have all changed to be under trunk/trunk... [edit2] Back to normal paths. Not clear what has changed.
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It's too bad they didn't cover SoftLayer's deal with Internap. Not quite in Akamai's league, especially outside of the US and Western Europe, but far better than some of the smaller CDN upstarts. Pay-as-you-go pricing, large network, and
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by jbyers 17y ago
The maximum expires header you can set with Rackspace's Limelight offering is 3 days. Fine for software delivery, one-off large images and files, etc., but not suitable for static object delivery. If I were a cynical man, I'd say this eit
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The Great Abdication: Consumer Internet, VC, and Angels(billburnham.blogs.com)
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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=916713
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A big difference is it doesn't highlight or denote authors.
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There seems to be a common thread among the suggested fixes. :) Page Speed suggestions Details: Enable gzip compression http://www.google-analytics.com/ga.js (13.6 KB) Minimize DNS lookups http://www.google-analy
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Reputation for your IP takes time. Some providers are smarter than others about how long you need to establish a reputation. Google seems quick if you follow the rules. Microsoft and AOL seem on the slower side, we give an IP a few weeks
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by jbyers 17y ago
Great advice. I'd rephrase #3 as "Obsess over having stats, not checking stats"
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We're hiring at Wikispaces. Javascript and support engineers, sales. Profitable, growing like gangbusters, 3.5 million registered users, small team in nice San Francisco office. http://www.wikispaces.com/Jobs Drop me an email at jbyers a
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"7. What’s your secret sauce? ... We hope to come up with Something Big in 2010." Hmm. I harbor hope that he's kidding. I'm more and more a believer that the only secret sauce that matters is relentless execution and incremental improveme
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There's really not much detail about the technology behind the scam in this article. Summary: intentionally proprietary and out-of-date software, oversized and chaotic IT/IS department, AS/400, two disconnected trading systems, AS/400, lots
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For one of our JS bundles it's a substantial improvement over YUI's Compressor. Original: 459220 YUI: 241920 Google: 209929 -- 13% improvement YUI + gz: 66164 Google + gz: 61297 -- 7% improvement Caught a few non-fatal syntax errors too. W
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Great, that reminded me to remove something I apparently put on my Google Products wishlist in 2005(?)
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Nice. We built a mysql-backed queue with nearly identical properties but it's not especially efficient. It does 10+ jobs per second per worker, but with locking this starts to cause InnoDB concurrency problems. Not insurmountable, but mov
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by jbyers 17y ago
"If all you needed was a HA load balancer, and had no experience with either ldirectord or keepalived, I’d probably recommend keepalived over ldirectord, as it’s one project and one piece of software to do everything you need." Having used
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by jbyers 17y ago
It's been in for about five months and seems to be undergoing heavy development. Like everything else nginx I'm sure it will be rock solid, but I don't think it can be considered core yet.
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That joke may not age well, but at this moment, fantastic.
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I'm glad to see Yahoo put this project out in the open source world. What I'm having a hard time with is understanding precisely where it fits after having read through all the public docs. Despite the comparisons drawn on the intro page,
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Same issue for me, FWIW

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