madaxe

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by madaxe 16y ago
Nah, you can use EC2 for uptime-critical apps, you just have to a) not be a dipshit and b) stick your stuff in as many AZs as you can, and ELB it.
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by madaxe 16y ago
Estimates are unimportant. Why? Because most conversations about estimates go thusly: Client: "How long will it take?" Dev: "Approximately three weeks." Client: "We need a firm date." Dev: "Fine, April 29th." Client: "Unacceptable. We requi
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by madaxe 16y ago
Agreed - they're still teaching undergrads Fortran '77 in 2011, as there's this weird conception in the physics community that no language since F77 could possibly even be arithmetically correct.
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by madaxe 16y ago
Ah, but I don't miss the free time, partially because I've rationally weighed up short-term costs against long-term benefits, and partially because I've come to realise that I actually enjoy working myself to the bone - hence the probabilit
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by madaxe 16y ago
We're strange, insofar as we've a foot in the software door, and a foot in the agency door - there's method to our madness, insofar as the agency side of things is effectively our peer-review group. We're highly profitable, but everything,
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by madaxe 16y ago
Balance is a pipedream. Success is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration - glib, but true. We started 5 years ago - I've been on call 24/7 ever since. We've now got other people on call too, sure, but as the technical lead, I'm where the bu
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by madaxe 16y ago
Yes, although we're now almost five, so not so much of a startup any more - although we are entirely self-funded (not through a lack of investment offers, just that we don't want/need it). Profits each year were $60k, 100, 30 (heavy re-inve
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by madaxe 16y ago
Disagree. Plenty of us live to work, because working is living. If you're not creating and producing, you're merely existing.
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by madaxe 16y ago
It's a combination of 3 and 1, I'd wager. I've worked in startup environments in both the UK and the US. In the US, being an entrepreneur is seen as a good thing, and people bond, mesh, and engage as a result of their common interest in ste
550.
by madaxe 16y ago
Definitely isn't. His English looks exactly like an Argentinian writing English.
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by madaxe 16y ago
They're not the victim - they're guiltier than anyone who grabs their customer data. When you provide an online service that gathers consumer information - particularly sensitive consumer information (such as that which you might find on,
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by madaxe 16y ago
Amateur developer, amateur clients.
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by madaxe 16y ago
Right - but I think you may have slightly missed my point. You're weighing the iPhone against android - they're similar devices, but with significantly different philosophies. My point is that apple's devices appeal to people who want to us
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by madaxe 16y ago
If apple does end up having that variety of completely push model, they will end up alienating their most evangelical userbase - something they may potentially not particularly care about by the point at which they'd make a decision of that
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by madaxe 16y ago
Not being in control of your own computer isn't a problem, so long as you stop thinking of it as your own computer, but as a device that allows you to access content. If you want a computer that allows you to tinker and use it for purposes
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by madaxe 16y ago
I'm a techie. I use a mac. I have an iPhone. I love the devices I have from apple. Apple's strategy is not one of creating hardware. It isn't one of creating software. It's one of creating a digital ecosystem which interoperates with almost
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by madaxe 16y ago
Your daughter had better be using that 8 gig for something useful. 8k should be enough for anybody!
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by madaxe 16y ago
Yeah, and they worked really well.
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by madaxe 16y ago
We're all both the town drunk and the bank president - it just depends on who's in charge. I run a successful web firm, and am outwardly a happy-go-lucky manic-type person - out of public view, I drink and brood. Conversely, my younger brot
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by madaxe 16y ago
A nice idea, but you're going to find yourself in support hell faster than you can say "but I said no iterations". As soon as you develop anything for anyone you become their perpetual unpaid technology bitch, phoned at 4:30 AM to be asked
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by madaxe 16y ago
Basically, any "serious" PSP is going to want a stack of information from you before you can start trading. PayPal shut down and suspend accounts on a regular basis because they basically only fraud screen you after you're up and running,
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by madaxe 16y ago
Very well put - and it'd have the additional bonus of increasing interest in non-physical informational transit (i.e. the internet) for urgent documents (and perhaps even help instantiate a shift away from things such as paper contracts), f
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by madaxe 16y ago
Great - we've got two moderately large (12+ instances) clusters with them, one in the US, one in the UK - both are fast .
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by madaxe 16y ago
Linode are wonderful - best support I've had from anyone, ever. Nice instances, too!
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by madaxe 16y ago
The fundamental is that you can't outsource skilled knowledge labour piecemeal. You either outsource everything , and provide a third party with a functional specification, timings, and the financial means to fulfil those two, or you are,
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by madaxe 16y ago
You misconfigured it, then, I'm afraid to say... Number of threads = server memory/maximum memory usage per thread - 10% margin for overheads.
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by madaxe 16y ago
Because when you specify a disk , you realise he's guiding you in the direction of a specific answer. Use the filesystem. It's what it's there for, particularly if the data never changes. Nice big cache, xfs, nested hierarchical datastor