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by mnutt 10y ago
Improved our GIF encoding pathway to increase throughput. I'd be curious to hear exactly what they did around this. I recently worked on some gif encoding, and was surprised that there's actually quite a tradeoff to be made betw
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by mnutt 10y ago
What about shopping your book concept around to publishers, validating that there's interest (and that they think you're capable), then if there is, self-publishing?
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by mnutt 10y ago
Why do you say that? All of the metadata is at the beginning, followed by sequential frames.
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by mnutt 10y ago
Ok, that might have been an oversimplification on my part, maybe "isn't a natural fit" would have been better. I'm sure there's enough value there that you could have eventually made a business out of it.
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by mnutt 10y ago
It seems almost universally better? I can't think of any acquirer that would be more successful with Sandstorm than the founders themselves. Nobody I can think of is aligned with "users own their data" and big enough / c
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by mnutt 10y ago
Employees are effectively making an investment in the company in the form of work instead of cash. If a startup chose not to give out stock options, they'd likely have to pay their employees more, and they may have to raise another rou
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by mnutt 10y ago
Sure, any new piece of infrastructure we add has the possibility for reducing reliability. We only introduce things we think we can support, and that add value for the company. YMMV. We also have less than 15 minute incident engagement time
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by mnutt 10y ago
Honestly, think you've taken advice that is generally true ("service providers that focus on a problem can do it better than you") and applied it as dogma even when there are plenty of cases where it is flat out incorrect.
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by mnutt 10y ago
I disagree. In the last few years S3 has had multiple of these black swan events, while the reverse proxies I am talking about have pushed through hundreds of billions of responses and have had significantly fewer incidents. (In this case,
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by mnutt 10y ago
I still think a lot of this depends on your availability requirements. I don't think I could run an S3 service at the scale AWS does with higher reliability, but I do believe I can run a pool of redundant HAProxies with higher reliabil
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by mnutt 10y ago
Ah, fortuitous timing! :) If you were looking to protect yourself against S3 going down and had bigger drives, I assume you could use cron to sync the entire bucket and use `try_files` to prefer local and fall back to S3 if the file was mis
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by mnutt 10y ago
This incident lasted for three hours. The last incident was in 2015 and was also a significant amount of time. Sentry can likely provision a new HAProxy node in minutes. Most importantly, while S3 is relatively stable it's a black box.
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by mnutt 10y ago
One thing that complicates easy replication is the rules around CNAMEing your S3 bucket to a subdomain you control. You have to name the bucket subdomain.your-domain.com.s3.amazonaws.com, then CNAME subdomain to s3.amazonaws.com. Your repli
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by mnutt 10y ago
While not actually a real-life browser, Phantom 2.5 is _much_ closer to a real-life browser engine than it was previously.
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by mnutt 10y ago
I would imagine that the reason many companies are reluctant to do this (or at least don't advertise it) is because advising employees whether they should or should not do it amounts to giving financial planning advice. Asking hard eno
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by mnutt 10y ago
Sure, though I think this is somewhat specific to serverless because in traditional applications, authentication usually covers all interactions with the user whereas with serverless you sometimes have to figure it out on a case-by-case bas
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by mnutt 10y ago
For #1, I would probably disallow writing to arbitrary paths and instead generate a path prefix using a UUID and return that to the client to ensure that every upload is unique.
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by mnutt 10y ago
This article makes it sound like upload requests are restricted to your domain via CORS, but that is one of the pitfalls of thinking about everything through a serverless lens: while another site could not use javascript to directly upload
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by mnutt 10y ago
The "work" in this case would be the modified AGPL service. Using a reverse proxy, the "end user" would be the person running the reverse proxy, so you would owe source modification code to yourself, but nobody else.
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by mnutt 10y ago
Not a lawyer, but the challenge I see with AGPL is that it leaves room for ambiguous interpretation. My reading of it says (paraphrasing) "if you combine AGPL software with your program and that program interacts with others over the n
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by mnutt 10y ago
Are these sorts of things latency-sensitive enough that they couldn't use them with EC2 and similar? Or are the bandwidth needs so large that bandwidth charges cancel out any compute savings?
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by mnutt 10y ago
This is neat, and reminds me of http://www.themaninblue.com/experiment/Cubescape/new.php circa 2010. Very clever uses of css.
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by mnutt 10y ago
The solution described above is pretty much what Google's AMP does. It turns out that a lot of people don't like AMP because they see it as a monopolistic way of keeping users in Google's walled garden. HN doesn't quite
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by mnutt 10y ago
They mention that they used to base their geo routing on the location of the client's DNS server but have moved to BGP Anycast. I've heard that there can potentially be routing issues for long-running connections using anycast to
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by mnutt 10y ago
I built QtWebKit with roughly the same version used for Phantom 2.5, here's the support from html5test.com: https://rm891swy536139ttwzee.mnutt.sandcats.io/853e0e85-170e... I specifically left out some audio/video
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by mnutt 10y ago
I don't know if Sandstorm.io has an app like Asana specifically, but they have a pretty good Trello-like app and I think it fits the criteria pretty well for mostly painless self-hosting.
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by mnutt 10y ago
I think a more accurate comparison is this: https://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=ember%20javascript,r... Regardless, I've bet on Ember both at my company and personally because I think they've done a lot o
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by mnutt 10y ago
I'm looking into moving up from Photos.app to Darktable. One of the nice features of Photos.app is that through iCloud I can run Photos.app on my MBP which doesn't have space for my whole library and it will automatically pull dow
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by mnutt 10y ago
Route53 is basically the solution you describe with DNS records, and you could build out anycast DNS servers yourself if you wanted. The main thing to be aware of is that not all clients respect TTLs. We set a 30s ttl and see a 99% switchov
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by mnutt 10y ago
I recently came across the software they use for mixing their livestreams, and it looks really useful for anyone trying to build out a system to stream or record talks: https://github.com/voc/voctomix

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