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by mctx 14y ago
That's a great idea for online services, assuming that they don't have strict validatation ("your mother's maiden name can not contain symbols"). I'm not sure it would work as well with companies who call you though.
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by mctx 14y ago
Could you buy two cheap VPSs from different suppliers? That way you'd have redundancy and save money?
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by mctx 14y ago
I agree - at a very low 100MHz per player that's 25 players to a 2.5GHz Xeon core, 100 per CPU, 200 per server. Assume 100,000 players, that's 500 decently spec'd servers plus redundancy, bandwidth, storage, sysadmins, etc.
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by mctx 14y ago
A couple of typos: shedule -> schedule, developement -> development, won't be broken -> broke
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by mctx 14y ago
for i in xrange(len(item_list)): Could be more clearly written as: for _ in item_list:
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by mctx 14y ago
I don't think your question is answerable - traffic depends on a huge number of factors, many of which are human or random. Lunar phase may very well be a minor factor.
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by mctx 14y ago
70+ hours a week is a lot of work. Is that all coding, or a lot of managing/client communication, marketing, etc? How are your 12 hours structured, i.e. in 2 hour blocks?
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by mctx 14y ago
Lunar phase
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by mctx 14y ago
It sounds like they've got enough redundancy that a single drive failure (or even an entire pod) isn't an issue - they use cheap drives and simply swap them out when they fail. I wish Google's hard drive failure analysis [1] included failur
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by mctx 14y ago
I don't think the physical headphone port would be the concern - it'd be the battery usage, wireless performance, size/weight constraints, all the additional electronics, extra testing, and games having to support multiplayer sound, etc.
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by mctx 14y ago
I'd love to see a third party service that would deal with having your wallet (or card info) stolen - it would automatically cancel all your cards, sort out billing issues in the meantime, replace all your other cards, etc. Idea for a start
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by mctx 14y ago
You'd trust your hard drives with USPS? Edit: I'm not implying that USPS is necessarily unreliable, I'm curious to hear if this is common practice.
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by mctx 14y ago
I treat SO like a technically superior colleague - if I'm stuck with something and have exhausted my other options (documentation, examples, research, SO search), then I'll phrase my question clearly, showing my progress and what I'm stuck
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by mctx 14y ago
I think it's great - it's not about solving your quick fix, it's about providing future value for googlers.
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by mctx 14y ago
I think all this drama is a great opportunity for Heroku to bring out a new stack for non-concurrent apps with an intelligent routing mesh (v2.0a, perhaps). If I were you I'd go for another beer with the Heroku engineers and design/prototyp
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by mctx 14y ago
Aw I wish I'd read your comment before getting to the shipping address stage. Can I sign up somewhere and have you notify me when you come to Australia?
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by mctx 14y ago
Ask the law enforcement officers to send you a pull request instead?
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by mctx 14y ago
But which IM? Gmail chat? Facebook PM? Twitter DM? MSN? AIM? Skype? iMessage?
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by mctx 14y ago
They're 1U and 2U servers on which I've installed ESXi. I love it - I can run a VM locally then transfer it across, then if I'm travelling I can chuck it onto VMWare Fusion on my laptop.
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by mctx 14y ago
The main problem with my rack is the noise - I live in a flat and there's nowhere but the living room to put it. I've seen a few noise cancelling designs around, but they're all too expensive. I wonder if I could build a simple noise cancel
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by mctx 14y ago
> the 64 GB has only 23 GB available and the 128 GB model has only 83 GB available. How does Windows 8 take up 41GB? Is it purely the OS? Bloatware?
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by mctx 14y ago
I'll throw another vote in for Hover, their site is much nicer to navigate and service were recently very helpful to fix an issue involving email delay (that turned out to be caused by my ISP).
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by mctx 14y ago
The solar panel idea is interesting, but the problem of storage still remains. What about a global grid that spans the globe, with large solar arrays in the deserts of Australia, North America and South Africa? This way there's always an ar
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by mctx 14y ago
> To legally do any wiring work at all it must be done by an accredited electrician, not merely inspected by one as in most countries. And contract electricians cost upwards of $80/hour, making replacing a light fitting prohibitively ex
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by mctx 14y ago
I'd love to see some statistics relating to time spent on the site, or number of page views. I suspect that G+ would be orders of magnitudes lower than Facebook
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by mctx 14y ago
Sounds like an interesting career! I'm working as a software engineer on a rail automation project at the moment, finishing my BEng in Mechatronics in mid 2013. May I ask what you work on at HP?
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by mctx 14y ago
I've been doing some work with AWS/Heroku recently - just interested in if you're using a cloud service, VPS or physical servers, and what kind of tech powers the site. I'm looking forward to reading more posts and using the service when it
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by mctx 14y ago
Agreed - it's a beautiful site, but way too slow. I get the following results on a search: Adioso Wingtip 31035 ms, Expedia 82331 ms, Cheapoair 38141 ms And the home page takes about 20-30 seconds to load. I'd love to hear about Adioso's ba
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by mctx 14y ago
Mechatronic? Or do you have three degrees?
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by mctx 14y ago
For load testing, you could use apache bench with a fast bandwidth connection, beeswithmachineguns (EC2), locust.io (simulate users), blitz.io (cloud service)

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