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by kevinbowman 11y ago
Also odd that, if you read until the end, the author professes to have not actually tried using ECS yet. It's a good collection of the author's impressions of what ECS looks to be from the documentation, but it's a little out
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by kevinbowman 11y ago
I'm not so sure it is
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by kevinbowman 12y ago
But this is EBS + redundant NFS-mountable server, which is at least worth 2 EC2 instances as well as 2 x the EBS cost, which makes the equivalent ~$100 per month (m3.mediums) plus $0.20/GB/month for SSDs.
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Kickstarter project TriggerTrap pulls plug having spent 80% of the funds(kickstarter.com)
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by kevinbowman 12y ago
As does middle-click, which is super-handy.
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by kevinbowman 12y ago
I was in his Modern SQL talk at FOSDEM on Saturday, he clearly knows his stuff. His book is definitely on my list.
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by kevinbowman 12y ago
Presumably all of the spam copies are actually harming your rankings as well, as Google will see those as duplicate content. (Note that I'm guessing here, I have no particular authority in the area)
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by kevinbowman 12y ago
It's possible that the device will transcribe and record the text of everything, and then only send it upstream in batches along with the consumer-useful chatter. Over a TLS link, that would look quite innocuous.
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by kevinbowman 12y ago
Ah yes, that's possible; I'm not sure why I leapt to that conclusion. In that case, an app which uses this library and is only published on the Amazon Android App Store would not be tracked I guess. I actually find it kind of int
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by kevinbowman 12y ago
Wow: "For applications on Google Play that integrate this tool, usage is tracked" without even an option to disable that. Sure, it's open source so can be changed by editing the source code, but does anyone else find that ki
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by kevinbowman 12y ago
To protect against these kinds of attacks (and DNS rebinding attacks), most (?) modern browsers won't allow a webpage to make requests to non-routable IP addresses unless the page itself came from a non-routable IP address. Not that t
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by kevinbowman 12y ago
I've got a mains-attached one (ie not solely battery powered), and the button is "hush" which silences it for 5 mins (although it chirps once per minute to remind you that it's hushed). If you hold the button whilst it&
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by kevinbowman 12y ago
Also interesting is that the Guardian article is by the same person (George Monbiot) as the OP video. Not saying that's good or bad, just worth noting.
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by kevinbowman 12y ago
Oops; I typed in "patio11" and then after a reasonable delay got "502 Bad Gateway: Registered endpoint failed to handle the request.". It came up with mine quite quickly, so guess it spends some time ingesting the data?
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by kevinbowman 12y ago
Money laundering potential is a particular problem for bookmakers, that's true. The big name ones really don't want bad press, though, which I imagine is where most of the social responsibility stuff comes in (as well as trying t
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by kevinbowman 12y ago
It's pretty heavily regulated (you won't really see any evidence of black-market bookmakers in the UK although presumably they do exist), and most bookmakers are pretty keen on "social responsibility". At least for the
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by kevinbowman 12y ago
I'm guessing they meant this: * http://pcbunn.cithep.caltech.edu/bbcp/using_bbcp.htm * http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~abh/bbcp/ * http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~abh/bb
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by kevinbowman 12y ago
I use a local install of Node-RED [0] instead of IFTTT, I find it really good for ad-hoc wiring together of stimuli / physical responses (eg I have some LIFX bulbs). [0] http://nodered.org/
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by kevinbowman 12y ago
I have the pleasure of having been involved with one of the first network protocol reverse-engineers of the LIFX [0], and off the back of that hacked together a NodeJS library and a Wireshark dissector. I've updated the NodeJS lib to
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by kevinbowman 12y ago
That's a multipart response [0]. In the early days of 3G (and multimedia phones) we used to use those for some models of phone which supported it to give a better browsing experience - the gamble being that more downstream data would
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by kevinbowman 12y ago
I'd love to see a post from Flightradar24 talking about their internal tech, about how they deal with updates and requests from around the world which only make sense in real-time. Maybe some series of message-queue based processing (
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by kevinbowman 12y ago
I concur; we use sticky-sessions in our load-balancer, and stunnel when we're doing it on an SSL'd page, and it's working just fine.
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by kevinbowman 13y ago
The biggest speed-up to my cold-boot time was when I switched to SSD - time from grub to login screen is now just a few seconds. Interestingly, that changed my usage habits; I started shutting down my laptop more often and therefore had fe
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by kevinbowman 13y ago
I think that should be www.fastly.com ?
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by kevinbowman 13y ago
I also use MapsWithMe; if I'm not mistaken, it downloads the vector data offline and then renders it on the fly incredibly quickly. Impressive stuff.
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by kevinbowman 13y ago
Warning: the graph shown doesn't start the y-axis at 0. Had me briefly wondering if the problem had been eradicated and reoccurred.
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by kevinbowman 13y ago
My guess would be via some kind of SQL injection.
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by kevinbowman 13y ago
Meetings, presentations etc - I may not have my power brick with me.
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by kevinbowman 13y ago
I have a Lenovo Thinkpad W520, with nVidia Optimus. What they didn't tell me was that the external VGA port is hard-wired to the nVidia GPU, so I can't use it at all when on the Intel GPU. Choice: battery life or external VGA?
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by kevinbowman 13y ago
Isn't it a kind of self-fulfilling prophecy? As in, Amazon make a loose prediction about what you'll want to buy, but the hook of having that one available within 1 hour biases you to be more likely to buy that item. Then Amazon

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