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by meritt 9y ago
This is my biggest objection to Slack. Give me an application/container/whatever I can run on our network instead. I do not trust them with my entire company chat history stored in plaintext on the same cluster as every other comp
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by meritt 9y ago
Anecdotally, I don't know a single person in my network who uses Telegram but I know numerous people who use Signal (including some very surprising non-tech folks). Is this a common trend or do I just have a really weird network?
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by meritt 9y ago
Nashville makes the most sense to me. Centrally located for the midwest and Atlantic seaboard. Great central roadway hub. Airline flights can be increased easily with demand. Relatively low-cost of living, cheap land and cheap labor. Modera
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by meritt 9y ago
"Hey Doug, Got a minute? So the university where you learned Computer Science, well we just found out they recently closed their doors. Since they are no longer an accredited institution, nor do they even exist, we're going to hav
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by meritt 9y ago
Unless they've figured out a way to attach a DRM policy to the knowledge you learn from taking a course, I don't think it's possible for them to leave anyone high and dry.
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by meritt 9y ago
Given how easy it is to manipulate bitcoin pricing, and the first set of futures expire today, it does seem very coincidental. We'll see if it starts moving upward after CBOE contracts expire today and CME contracts expire on Jan 26th.
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by meritt 9y ago
> but why should this effort be made for PHP? Why not? There's a large and active community, both the core dev team actively improving it, and millions of programmers building applications. Just because you don't like something
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by meritt 9y ago
I was looking at the DynamoDB costs just to get an idea and I think it'd actually be a lot worse for this scenario: - Up to 1M writes per minute, or ~16k/second. Obviously they don't operate at full capacity 24x7 but let&#x27
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by meritt 9y ago
Can you show me where in the post that is described because I do not see it. All I see is a description of how they moved the UploadToS3 aspect to a job queue, but it's still sending individual files to S3.
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by meritt 9y ago
Fair point, I was mostly focused on the absurd cost for that specific implementation. What would you suggest as an alternative? A document-oriented database?
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by meritt 9y ago
They're uploading each POST payload to S3 at a rate of up to 1M uploads a minute? They're going to go broke from S3 operational fees. PUT fees are $0.005 per 1k, or $5/minute, or $7200/day S3 is an absolutely terrible fi
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by meritt 9y ago
If you think the midwest is safe, I think you should spend a bit of time reading about the Ogalla aquifer.
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by meritt 9y ago
W3W is proprietary, has commercial aims (you can purchase short-codes), cannot be used offline, is completely dependent on the provider, and a simple transposition of words will result in somewhere completely different. Simply using lat&#x2
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by meritt 9y ago
https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&C... Their CEO has a well-documented six-year history of acquiring and disposing INTC stock. As the CEO, he implicitly always has access to privileged in
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by meritt 9y ago
Major customers are absolutely the primary revenue source. AWS revenue follows the pareto principle.
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by meritt 9y ago
The sheer number of software development organizations who cannot function when github or their package repository happens to be unavailable (for whatever reason) is incredibly disheartening.
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by meritt 9y ago
You seem to have a good grasp on modern 3D programming -- Do you have any books recommendations that provide a solid overview of the topic?
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by meritt 9y ago
Unless customers absolutely raise hell, this is going to be very good for AWS. Suddenly all of these autoscaling setups are going to consume 30% more resources in order to achieve the same throughput. My expectation is we may see AWS apply
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by meritt 9y ago
I've been an eero user for a year and a half and I've been very happy. Prior to the purchase my research indicated that Ubiquiti would have been a technically superior option but the setup/configuration looked far more daunti
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by meritt 9y ago
Dan Grossman's http://hnreplies.com/ still works
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by meritt 9y ago
> Bitcoin was not designed to be a high-throughput currency. It's a store of value. I think you should spend some time reading https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf before making factually incorrect statements. Bitcoin is
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by meritt 9y ago
Out of curiosity, what technologies are you leveraging to write browser-based 3D games? Lightweight WebGL libraries, something higher-level like Unity, or something else entirely?
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by meritt 9y ago
It's definitely possible but we went through all of this a decade ago with Adobe Air, Microsoft Silverlight, and JavaFX. Nearly a decade before that, in the early 2000s, we went through this with Macromedia Flash, Java Applets, and Mic
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by meritt 9y ago
It's not a popular opinion but remove the anonymity/fake accounts and you eliminate a very significant portion of these issues.
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by meritt 9y ago
A large number of people here on HN are in the 1% as you only need a household income of $465k. That's easily met by two mid-level engineers at Google, Apple, Facebook, Netflix, AirBNB, et al.
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by meritt 9y ago
Prior to 2018 at the federal level, this strategy only saves on payroll taxes, which is effectively just the medicare portion: ~2.9% - 3.8% of tax savings. In 2018 however pass-through income gets to take a very significant 20% deduction of
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by meritt 9y ago
Your 7-day-old account is being almost exclusively used to push pro-GOP messaging and anti-Obama rhetoric.
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by meritt 9y ago
OP needs to learn the difference between poor application design and exploitable bugs.
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by meritt 9y ago
Before you get out your pitchforks, this page is from 2001. He's made updates and added email commentary since then but it's reflective of a very different age from someone (Don Burleson) who was very much considered "old fas
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by meritt 9y ago
Exemptions have been removed entirely. That's a deduction of $4,050 per child that went away. However, Child Tax Credits increased from $1,000 to $2,000 (with $1,400 being fully refundable). For someone in a 25% tax bracket, the additi

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