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by kondro 16y ago
Hardware is always going to fail eventually. Moving to AWS caused NetFlix to write better code to deal with these failures. Failures were always going to happen, even in their own datacentre. What they have now is a more fault-tolerant syst
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by kondro 16y ago
I would find it interesting if many mobile networks in the world that support many more users and many more messages per second will have even spent $460m on their SMS/MMS infrastructure. I understand that Twitter is different, but 65 milli
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by kondro 16y ago
Really... no one else thought this was funny? In fact, it got down-voted? I thought you people had a sense of humour.
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by kondro 16y ago
So, identity theft only then.
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by kondro 16y ago
'Tis the season to be compromised. Fa la la la la, la la la la. Change your passwords or be sodomized. Fa la la la la, la la la la.
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by kondro 16y ago
This will be incredibly useful for all those 4-hour workweek fanatics.
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Bacon is still spam and still very interruptive(wayne-robinson.com)
1 points by kondro 16y ago|0 comments
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by kondro 16y ago
But I think we can all agree that it is very, very far away.
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by kondro 16y ago
This is very impressive. Think of all the BitCoins they could create with a setup like that (I get an average of 50 coins every 26 minutes with http://www.alloscomp.com/bitcoin/calculator.php ). At a current market value of about USD$0.22
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by kondro 16y ago
Sigh, more sensationalist headlines that really have no content. Unsurprisingly, old technology is old and new technology is new.
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by kondro 16y ago
It's definitely nice to get a resource like this, but anyone who spends a reasonable amount of time writing applications for Rails should pick up all this. There really isn't that much Magic, it's convention. Think of it like Struts, Spring
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by kondro 16y ago
I guess, but I don't want to run into the 1KB index size per row limit in MySQL (unless that has changed without me knowing) either and I have other fields I want to index as well.
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by kondro 16y ago
There's more of us than you'd think ;)
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by kondro 16y ago
It's actually a good plan. I'm surprised most secret systems aren't just accessible via thin client without any bulk transfer capabilities.
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Ask HN: What length do you choose for email fields?
7 points by kondro 16y ago|14 comments
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by kondro 16y ago
Wow. No password is safe. If you have an 8 character password using 8 characters from a selection of 80 with a known salt the password would take just 16.5 hours to crack. Much less if you assume a smaller character pool as most people don'
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by kondro 16y ago
Seems like reward points programs are much better in the USA than in Australia -_-
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by kondro 16y ago
If you click to edit the document and then escape out again the library automatically chooses tags from the content and adds them to the bottom. Really cool actually :-)
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by kondro 16y ago
The only feedback I can give you is that if an employer wanted me to complete this process I would look for a different employer. Being treated like a machine even before you are hired by a company would be a gigantic flashing warning sign
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by kondro 16y ago
Good luck. Hope they are onto a winner.
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by kondro 16y ago
Sounds like fun but the guy must shop to get to the following points in 11 months: 130,000 American Airline miles 105,000 British Airways Miles 40,000 Starwood Preferred Guest points 25,000 American Express points I'm only gues
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by kondro 16y ago
Do you really think that either of these would be higher than paying users? There really isn't that much money in ad revenue these days unless you can control the market and have truly massive (ala Google's 400+ million searches a day).
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by kondro 16y ago
I guess something is working out for them. But for that $800k/month they have to support 5 million users. I wonder how profitable that actually is for them?
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by kondro 16y ago
I guess the trick is to make the iPad (or iPhone for that matter) the only device required for mobile staff. If a staff member still has to carry a notebook around with them for when they need to get 'real' work done, then employers aren't
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by kondro 16y ago
Caching I guess... of things. For instance, the GitHub wiki is actually stored within a git repo. Having a local editor/viewer built into this application for the wiki would be useful. This goes for the ticketing system as well. And finally
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by kondro 16y ago
Have you started responding to job applications yet? I've had friends apply for positions (with amazing, enticing and fun cover letters), and then, after a week or so of hearing nothing following up to ensure that you've received their app
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by kondro 16y ago
The biggest problem with getting lawyers involved early-on is that it's their purview to protect your interests above all else, including an equitable, workable deal. It has been my experience that using lawyers too early will put ridiculou
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by kondro 16y ago
What a great idea and I would donate if Kickstarter used something other than Amazon payments (which is limited to US-users). I wonder how much 'caching' the application will do and I hope there will be a project/file browser added in the f
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by kondro 16y ago
Sure, a post like this made sense when the µSIM requiring devices were released, but now? Every telco that ever wants to sell a wireless data plan in the world should offer µSIM cards and it is a much better idea to use the real thing than
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by kondro 16y ago
I suppose the question to ask yourself is, "does our current model work?" If you're managing to grow your business consistently and at a rate you are happy with using your existing model and the new pricing model may result in you losing ac

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