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by jm4 18y ago
What's up with this headline? The original article's headline is "3 reasons why Knol will beat Wikipedia". Changing it to "3 reasons why Knol will beat Wikipedia's ass" is just plain immature and makes HN look like Digg or Reddit. We're tal
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by jm4 18y ago
If they figure out a way to attach one of these lasers to a shark I'll take three... Once they get finished blowing things up there are bound to be tons of civilian uses for the kind of power supply that will most likely be required for the
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by jm4 18y ago
Southwest makes money because they're still paying $1-something per gallon of jet fuel while everyone else is paying over $4. Years ago when prices first started to go up they contracted to buy something like 10 years of fuel at a fixed pri
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by jm4 18y ago
Google would probably spend a few million building a competitor and would then have to fight tooth and nail for a position in the social news market. I would imagine it's very unlikely they'd make significant progress. I've read that Yahoo
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by jm4 18y ago
This is an absolutely terrible headline. I don't blame the submitter- it was taken directly from the article. The headline implies that Facebook has, in fact, acquired Twitter. They've done no such thing. This is just some armchair analyst
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by jm4 18y ago
What do you mean by that? I'm not a big user of Google APIs so I can't attest to the quality, but it seems like they provide them for quite a few things. Maybe they would do a mediocre job of maintaining and improving the Digg API, but it w
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by jm4 18y ago
I've used Spring but not Spring MVC so I can't comment on their web framework. I have used WebWork which became Struts 2. I think Java web development is complicated and tedious under the best of circumstances, but as far as Java web framew
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by jm4 18y ago
Are you serious? Do you have any idea of the negative impact on Google's business if they manipulated search results to squelch a bunch of big mouth bloggers because they said "bad" things? Besides, the comments on Digg are about on par wit
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by jm4 18y ago
Ugh... I thought I was done reading stupid chair jokes when I left Slashdot...
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by jm4 18y ago
This may be the first service, but I'm pretty sure they've been doing this for a while in parts of the southern US! /ducks
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by jm4 18y ago
You've got a point about the name, but the filtering is opt-in and when a site is blocked by a filter you get a message explaining why. You can use it as plain old free DNS if you're looking to avoid the ad-filled failed lookup redirects th
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by jm4 18y ago
I think the best advice is to take a common sense approach. Do the things you would normally do to protect against things like this and don't sweat it too much. As a startup, you're a pretty small target. I doubt you'd even register on anyo
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by jm4 18y ago
I'm not sure this improves the situation much. In fact, it probably will only make things worse since you've got an additional point of failure. The proxy will keep your site up if S3 goes down, but if the proxy goes down you're done. This
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by jm4 18y ago
Yes, that's BigTable specific. My point was that right now you have no option but to rewrite code if you need to move off App Engine and BigTable. How is it not a stretch to see an open source BigTable on EC2? As far as I can tell BigTable
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by jm4 18y ago
Yeah, that's what I was getting at. As soon as you need any persistent storage you're chained to BigTable. That leaves a lot of code that needs to be rewritten if you need to move to a new storage model. This isn't unlike the storage proble
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by jm4 18y ago
This isn't some case of corporate espionage or something. The "secrets" this guy is accused of taking is basically just run of mill information that he would need to be privy to in order to do his job- pricing, margins, planning, etc. The m
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by jm4 18y ago
I haven't used App Engine, but the BigTable thing looks pretty cool and I think a lot of us are starting to realize that SQL relational databases aren't very good for a lot of the things we do. That said, I think the main concern is lock in
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by jm4 18y ago
Wow... The amount of hardware required for that application is just horrifying... I'm really not sure what to think of this. I know Ruby isn't a speed demon, but 25 servers to serve up a few hundred images per second is just insane. These a
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by jm4 18y ago
I won't dispute your results, but those alone are insufficient evidence to suggest any correlation between languages and the ability to develop secure applications. It's a huge leap to say that ApplicationX, developed in Blub++, has more bu
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by jm4 18y ago
MySpace is the largest CF site I'm aware of. I think they actually use the BlueDragon flavor of CF- or at least they did at one time. Most people haven't heard of it, but there's actually another implementation besides the one from Adobe. I
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by jm4 18y ago
It's not the fact that the examples are in ColdFusion that makes this article mostly irrelevant. To suggest that it does really just makes you sound ignorant, especially since the particular attack being demonstrated is not language specifi
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by jm4 18y ago
SQL Injection Part II? It's a textbook example of SQL injection. I guess it's interesting if you haven't seen one before, but this isn't some new and more evil version of an old attack. It's just the same old attack that's been around since
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by jm4 18y ago
Hmm... The fact that you're so concerned about requests not hitting your web app without going through your Flex front end raises a red flag... Anyway, you can obscure the key into the code all you want. If it's a string value there's only
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by jm4 18y ago
I think so too. I think people also sometimes vote up interesting articles that may be off topic just to save them. I've voted up a couple articles to save them and come back later that I might not have voted up on merit alone. I won't do t
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by jm4 18y ago
Most ISPs are slimey and anti-consumer. Rogers is no exception, but I don't know if I'd go so far as to say this is a new low. This is hardly worth complaining about compared to throttling, traffic shaping and rewriting pages. All they're d
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by jm4 18y ago
While somewhat interesting and revealing, this is hardly new information and certainly not HN.
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by jm4 18y ago
I did see that Microsoft had said they will have some sort of integration by the end of the year, but that doesn't necessarily imply that they will need to port the Unix stuff to Windows. Maybe a mix of Live Search on Windows and Powerset o
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by jm4 18y ago
I am thoroughly convinced Microsoft will botch up this acquisition, but that's only because it's usually a safe bet that Microsoft will botch up anything internet related. They just don't get it. This article is based largely on the assumpt
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by jm4 18y ago
Hmm... Good question... Bit torrent might be worth looking into. It will probably take forever, but once it gets going you can just leave it for a couple days and it's easy to resume a transfer if anyone gets disconnected. It might even be
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by jm4 18y ago
I assume you're using your shared host's DNS servers and that a move to a VPS also requires a DNS move. If it's possible to keep the same nameservers it's just a matter of changing the record and everything will work right away. Switching n

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