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by kierank 17y ago
I get the feeling Techcrunch is doing a whole "Tomorrow Never Dies" thing here both with the "Twitter Leaks" and now this "argument about the Crunchpad"...
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by kierank 17y ago
I would recommend watching this instead of waiting for your browser to unfreeze after 20 seconds.
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by kierank 17y ago
The "Press Esc to exit" message doesn't really give much away.
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by kierank 17y ago
BBC IT and R&D are separate.
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by kierank 17y ago
Smart people might work on sexy projects like fighter planes and space rockets for ordinary wages, but semiconductors or light bulbs or the plumbing of e-commerce probably have to be developed by entrepreneurs. I don't agree that this is
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by kierank 17y ago
Also the "ads" on Wikipedia have a hide button.
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by kierank 17y ago
A transport stream (that is used in digital TV and Blu-Rays amongst other things) segments video/audio into 184 byte payloads. It's not that much different really.
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by kierank 17y ago
To cut a long story short I had to take that server down at short notice. This was meant to be a temporary outage but I haven't yet got a replacement server that is able to run the news.yc software in arc. Also the site was a bit dull and I
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by kierank 17y ago
To CERN's credit they do a very good job with tours. It was even better when you could go inside before it was closed up.
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by kierank 17y ago
Kohive: https://www.kohive.com/
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by kierank 17y ago
Will need to fix that - that's because of the .tk "domain name" frame.
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by kierank 17y ago
Direct link: http://www.propernews.tk
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Tell HN: "Proper News"
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by kierank 17y ago
And in my opinion the BBC World Service does the same thing on the radio.
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by kierank 17y ago
I was thinking about starting a site like this (perhaps based on this source code). The only issue I thought of was that people would just have to accept that I was going to be the dictator in what goes in and what doesn't. With topics like
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by kierank 17y ago
More info: http://blog.streamingmedia.com/the_business_of_online_vi/200... I'd recommend Dan Rayburn's blog for a real-world perspective on CDNs, video etc.
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by kierank 17y ago
They use HTTP with an addition in their servers similar to this plugin: http://h264.code-shop.com/trac to do HTTP scrubbing. Google also used Akamai for its Google Live broadcast which indicated that their network couldn't do RTMP (at the
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by kierank 17y ago
Generally with CDNs you get charged per GB until a certain amount. Then it'll depend on your specific contract whether its GB or Mbps; there's no hard and fast rule.
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by kierank 17y ago
You can peer quite heavily without a fibre (or any) backbone. Akamai peers heavily but has no backbone. Power is a major issue in datacentres here especially ones in large cities. I also wouldn't be surprised if Google use software routers
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by kierank 17y ago
From my experiences, if we assume that Youtube's bandwidth costs are similar to what Akamai charges for an extremely large video site There's an "Akamai markup" which is a well known thing that Akamai charge for the heritage (somewhat ana
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by kierank 17y ago
Expected better from the telegraph but this is again diggbait.
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by kierank 17y ago
Normally yes, but in this case it nudged other news outlets such as the BBC to report on the story The BBC reported about the Trafigura case in depth on Newsnight* many weeks ago. Inevitably journalists would have had to mention it as it
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by kierank 17y ago
That graph is somewhat misleading. P2P clients use randomised port numbers now. By contrast, P2P downloads arrive in random chunks, making it hard to know when a download will finish — which is when it’s actually possible to start watching
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by kierank 17y ago
http://www.kurtis.pp.se/blog/2009/10/crisis_information_in_t... More information from the CEO of Autonomica, the organisation that runs some (all?) of the .se infrastructure.
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by kierank 17y ago
The trending tags on twitter just mean lots of people re-tweeted something. It's the equivalent of emails that say you should forward it to 100 friends to get good luck. In this case it was "You should be outraged by this, re-tweet it!". B
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by kierank 17y ago
He never mentioned anything about Sam Sethi. UK libel laws are a serious issue.
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by kierank 17y ago
What this article seems to portray is that retweeting is the same as marching in front of Parliament. The fact is in spite of the heavy retweeting, although it gained the attention of people for a short time, its actual impact is not much m
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by kierank 17y ago
These are incredibly good. You can literally feel the water gliding off your hands.
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by kierank 17y ago
In my opinion those tabs on the side of the screen look really tacky too.
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by kierank 17y ago
I'd add use of 1080i compared to better alternatives like 720p to that list too.

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