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by jbyers 15y ago
Or you bet wrong about the load they deal with. They may also have higher availability requirements than most companies and need 2X (more?) the infrastructure to protect against a data collection failure. They may be counting nodes used per
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by jbyers 15y ago
A factor this post doesn't mention is bandwidth cost. If you use a lot of bandwidth and negotiate competitive hardware pricing, you also save with dedicated hosts. Say you have 10 machines at SoftLayer and use 30TB a month. Each machine com
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by jbyers 15y ago
Original article: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/10/how-secure-https-today
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You're Ramen Sustainable(onstartups.com)
27 points by jbyers 15y ago|16 comments
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by jbyers 15y ago
Nice technique. The number of distinct dynamic pages you expect to get hammered still must be regenerated within that second. With a longer window, some wp-admin or logged-in-user detection, and a third-party comment service, I could see th
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by jbyers 15y ago
Page Speed Online graduated out of Labs. There don't appear to be significant differences from the previous version aside from a restyling. Previous commentary: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2816166 http://news.ycombinator.com/item
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by jbyers 15y ago
> Education also really is several separate industries rather than a monolithic one. This is a great point, and something pundits and the author of this article don't explain in sufficient detail. Comparing a company that offers online
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Deal Sites Have Fading Allure for Merchants(nytimes.com)
5 points by jbyers 15y ago|0 comments
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by jbyers 15y ago
Requirement number one was that IDs be sortable by time. CouchDB UUIDs are random.
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by jbyers 15y ago
Just bug fixes? If you allow file uploads, you would be wise to upgrade. Fixed bug #54939 (File path injection vulnerability in RFC1867 File upload filename). Reported by Krzysztof Kotowicz. (CVE-2011-2202) "The rfc1867_post_handler functio
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by jbyers 15y ago
From April. HN's de-duping system seems to be broken. Identical URL posted as http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2590862 .
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by jbyers 15y ago
Duplicate of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1886137 from October 2010. Edit: submissions have identical URLs. Is there something wrong with HN's de-duping system?
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by jbyers 15y ago
Dupe http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2791115
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by jbyers 15y ago
Thanks for that thread. Sounds like that's the end of ksplice, except for Oracle Linux customers.
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by jbyers 15y ago
I'd post something from the ksplice side, but this is the only announcement of substance I can find.
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by jbyers 15y ago
When migrating our company's 15 domains away from GoDaddy I evaluated around a dozen registrars. Our criteria may be different from yours. With millions of subdomains and tens of millions of user-generated pages, we needed a registar that
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by jbyers 15y ago
The author's first point is incorrect. GoDaddy doesn't take a month off the length of the cert. They do start sending you reminders 60 days ahead that say your cert needs to be renewed in 30 days, but you get your full extra year. I've had
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Insights From Steve Jobs Keynote Circa 1997(onstartups.com)
22 points by jbyers 15y ago|12 comments
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by jbyers 15y ago
If a Gömböc is built to 10 micron tolerances, does that mean I need a cleanroom and the world's flattest table to be assured it will work?
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by jbyers 15y ago
The Data Relay project referenced in his comment: http://datarelay.codeplex.com/
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by jbyers 15y ago
The comments on this post are worth reading. It's impossible to construct a meaningful synthetic benchmark without more rigor about what client is being used, how it's configured, how the OS is tuned, testing against actual files (rather th
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by jbyers 15y ago
This story -- which is no doubt remarkable -- seems to make the rounds frequently both on mainstream news and HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=357144 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=478354 http://news.ycombinator.com/item
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by jbyers 15y ago
569 days old. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=924426
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by jbyers 15y ago
This title strikes me as misleading. It should not come as a surprise that the personal information gathered in the first attack will be used for this purpose. It's just shocking that PSN forgot or misunderstood that they themselves were th
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Blogger is back(buzz.blogger.com)
3 points by jbyers 15y ago|0 comments
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by jbyers 15y ago
It's really nice to see that boto (python AWS library) supports S3 and Google Storage side-by-side. Being able to pick and choose providers behind the same API is how the cloud should be.
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by jbyers 15y ago
CrunchGear lists prices. $350+ for the Acer, $425+ for the Samsung: http://www.crunchgear.com/2011/05/11/the-google-chromebook-b...
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by jbyers 15y ago
This looks to be a useful service and another nice extension to AWS. However after re-reading Jeff's post, I found: All metrics are retained for a period of two weeks. This is a severe limitation. For short-term server health and aut
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by jbyers 15y ago
See the last comment from SL's Kevin Hazard. They're aware of this post at the executive level, at least.
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by jbyers 15y ago
NYT: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/02/world/asia/osama-bin-laden...

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