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by marquis 15y ago
Yes, CPU cycles is the most expensive. Great discussion here on Stackoverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/149274/http-vs-https-perf...
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by marquis 15y ago
In the audiocast they said they have the occasional parking ticket. I use visa consultants. If they set up a website front I'd be happy to seek them out next time I go to China. Sounds like they know the system inside out and $20 is a small
873.
by marquis 15y ago
Regarding "All software downloads should be provided only over HTTPS", this is very expensive to provide, but is allowing users to compare a checksum an equally secure option?
874.
by marquis 15y ago
Yes, you are correct. I used the wrong terminology here to express my argument.
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by marquis 15y ago
I'm not sure I'd go so far as to call the work displayed here art, but I do agree that it can be admired on it's own merits.
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by marquis 15y ago
Does bandcamp have a 'random' radio feed? I was unable to find it. (radio.bandcamp.com leads to a particular band).
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by marquis 15y ago
I think we'll find it comes down to clever marketing. I suspect that this project works because it's a) the first to come off the back of C.K.'s project and b) targeting HN which is usually responsive to innovation. He could probably get so
878.
by marquis 15y ago
Yes, that's understood, I realise I used the terminology incorrectly. I've just been reading up on DNS and regulatory control and now more deeply understand that DNS is an extremely difficult problem to solve so that it outside of overt dis
879.
by marquis 15y ago
Better than nightschool would be to spend time developing your own product. Look around you, and any time you run into a problem (I wish I could do X easier or cheaper) think if you could build a system that does that. There are plenty of h
880.
by marquis 15y ago
One example: the free software movement should lead to a better DNS system where governments and corporations will have no control over how and where we access information online. I continue to support the EFF and groups like it in order to
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by marquis 15y ago
Yes, you have a good point about not being able to take time off work. I am sure this is blocking a lot of people from upping their education. Would night school be too much of a drain? There must be evening classes for programming in SV so
882.
by marquis 15y ago
There are a few airports I can think of around the world that are a little more concerning (and possibly more fun). http://www.oddee.com/item_93109.aspx
883.
by marquis 15y ago
Perhaps try one of the new bootcamps and get a couple of months of code education. You sound like the kind of person who would be a good intern hire, according to your post you have plenty of self-motivation which counts in your favour.
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by marquis 15y ago
I compel you to consider the life narrative of women and men who choose to be objectified sexually: I believe you will find that none of them thought when they were young, 'I want to grow up to be objectified for my body'. It is not so much
885.
by marquis 15y ago
That's a good question I couldn't find the answer for. What I can tell you is what happens as a MailChimp user: if I send out an email and someone clicks the 'this is SPAM' button in their mail client, MailChimp notifies me that this happen
886.
by marquis 15y ago
Oh, great to know thanks. I haven't moved to lion yet because of app support.
887.
by marquis 15y ago
Yes, we are currently looking for a good geolocation API. If we have to built it ourselves I suppose we could monetize it..
888.
by marquis 15y ago
my bank uses: 1. 12 digit pin / complex password 2. Physical reference card (like a puzzle game to answer on login) 3. Must reply to SMS to transfer funds / configure payments
889.
by marquis 15y ago
Mailchimp for example, provides this information. It's one reason why Mailchimp and SendGrid et al are so useful. It pays for itself when we send out a newsletter to thousands of emails.
890.
by marquis 15y ago
Filevault isn't supported by the major media editing apps. I travel a lot and rely on having a 'fake' account on my drive that I can login to if asked that has pretty much nothing on it.
891.
by marquis 15y ago
I really disagree about making it 'easier' to login to your online banking. Those who are savvy enough know what they are doing and can handle complex password / authorization combos. Until we have better solutions leave it complex and let
892.
by marquis 15y ago
A blogger friend of mine would love this, great gift idea.
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by marquis 15y ago
On radio, I agree: I enjoy the wit of certain hosts. You can stay on the cloud however - most radio stations have net radio so I can listen to my favourite hosts all over the world. I switch between NPR's awesome SandBox [1] and various stu
894.
by marquis 15y ago
As an international contractor you are best to set yourself up as a company or self-trader and invoice appropriately. You should then be subject to normal international outsourcing behaviour in regards to the paying company's tax.
895.
by marquis 15y ago
Be careful doing this, as there are official rules whether someone is a contractor or not, not just 'because I call myself one'. You can in theory get hit for payroll taxes. http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/article/0,,id=99921,00.h...
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by marquis 15y ago
Samoans mostly live and work in/with Australia and New Zealand. Doesn't that make more sense, than pretending they are closer to the U.S.?
897.
by marquis 15y ago
Then tuesday is the new monday.. you can't escape it. Also, easier to cope with changes over the weekend for those doing international business.
898.
by marquis 15y ago
We've experienced location-wide outages due to natural disasters in host centers - putting all our servers in one place is no longer an option, so we're looking at a combo of colo and cloud. We're scaling up to 5 locations in the next month
899.
by marquis 15y ago
It's closer to $65 a month, with current euro->USD conversion.
900.
by marquis 15y ago
This brings up a question I've also wondered when looking at moving to EC2: it simply costs more to run when you have a few servers that use up a lot of bandwidth. At what scale does it become more efficient?

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