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On Backups(swapped.cc)
4 points by latitude 15y ago|1 comments
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by latitude 15y ago
If a Varnish instance keeps access logs, they can be used as traffic data source instead of the actual webserver. It makes no difference.
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by latitude 15y ago
I've seen it, but I haven't used it.
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by latitude 15y ago
To each his own, but do elaborate. I'm interested to hear why you think they are very artificial.
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by latitude 15y ago
I wouldn't call it massively unreliable from what I've seen so far. For one it is offset by the fact that the site it is used on is Ajax'ed, so it is fairly simple to filter out those who poll just the container page and don't follow up w
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by latitude 15y ago
I hear you, thanks. It's a pet project and switching to the cron job or just tail'ing the log file is a trivial change, just as you said. Doing it directly from the page is just easier for now.
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by latitude 15y ago
tl;dr - reinventing the wheel is the only way to build a better wheel :) Seriously though - I have used some of these in the past (settling however on Mint, which is not open-source in its common sense), none were perfect. I am a programmer
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by latitude 15y ago
The main advantage is the lack of dependency on a 3rd party service.
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by latitude 15y ago
I've been mulling over the idea of writing my own analytics package for a while now, and finally decided to sit down and do it. NA is a simple web analytics package that runs on a target web server, feeds directly from the server's web traf
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Show HN: Native Analytics (work in progress)(swapped.cc)
19 points by latitude 15y ago|29 comments
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by latitude 15y ago
> you never asked if people would pay That's off the point. Virtually no one who asked or cheered for the service ended up even trying it. I conversed with many designers privately beforehand and they were unanimously saying that -
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by latitude 15y ago
> Ask them what they need. Build it. Careful with that. Been there, here's a postmortem - http://v4.swapped.cc/certtime
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by latitude 15y ago
Taking bets on when ISO C will acquire a form of templates, or taking it in even more generic direction - parametrized namespaces. Something like this (an illustrative example, don't knock me down for including val into list ): names
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by latitude 15y ago
Erroneously calling random things that lack functionality and polish "minimalist" is a fad, but the minimalism itself is an well established form of design.
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by latitude 15y ago
It must be storing them in localStorage. That would make a truly minimalist blog - the one that is visible only to its author :)
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by latitude 15y ago
The point is to prevent erroneous issuance of others' patents in the first place and to avoid costly and lengthy re-examination process needed to get such patents cancelled.
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by latitude 15y ago
A new USPTO provision for expedited patent application processing creates a real-world race condition. With two competing patent applications, it is possible to get the one filed later - granted and the one filed earlier - rejected. It is r
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Tell HN: Got a pending US patent app? Read this.(v4.swapped.cc)
9 points by latitude 15y ago|3 comments
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by latitude 15y ago
Malfunctioned and landed itself neatly on a ground for the hostiles to pick up. Not much of an Occam's razor, is it? :)
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by latitude 15y ago
If you are on Firefox, then install Firebug and the next time you see a well-designed site with a font you like, pop Firebug open and checked font-family under Computed Style for the text in question. Chrome/Webkit has a built-in "Inspect e
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by latitude 15y ago
I am in Canada and while Interac is indeed widely accepted, people are using it noticeably less and less in favor of reward credit cards, which are - practically speaking - delayed-payment debit cards with really good benefits. Interac's la
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by latitude 15y ago
Point taken, but Adobe was just an example.
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by latitude 15y ago
Oh. HN/AMA, long time coming I'd say. Q: Say I have a product or a service that I think might be a very good fit for Adobe, including a realistic, well thought out business side of things. Is there a way to pitch it to the people of your po
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by latitude 15y ago
Now. One thing to keep in mind before everyone cringes hearing Adobe . Adobe has always been a very web friendly foundry. They permit things like Cufon use under their standard EULA that covers hundreds if not thousands of fonts. Few y
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by latitude 15y ago
Oh, what a thoroughly misleading post. One thing to keep in mind is that projects like Dribbble and Pictos would've not nearly as successful if they were not launched by people with a lot of existing exposure. Getting noticed and acquiring
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by latitude 15y ago
Same here, but in Canada. DDG response time is a major showstopper. From a brief examination the issue appeared to be rooted in DNS response time, which is something that I wasn't able to fix by trying different DNS servers. So, regretfully
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by latitude 15y ago
SemVer appears to be a formalization of a common versioning scheme as applied to APIs. And it inherits some of its problems. For example, > A bug fix is defined as an internal change that fixes incorrect behavior. One man's incorrect
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by latitude 15y ago
> informative version numbers That's the thing. It is really hard to make a string of dotted numbers informative . They can obviously be used to express hierarchy of the versions, and that's useful in development context, but I would
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by latitude 15y ago
Well, the point being is that users shouldn't really be exposed to the details of internal branching. It is perfectly fine to use hierarchical versions internally, but they should be mapped to something simpler for the public releases. A on
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by latitude 15y ago
Perhaps I am an odd one out, but as a user I really do not like software that updates itself, leave alone silently like Chrome does. As a developer - sure, I would love for everyone to be on automatic updates, but looking at stats it appe

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