mrtron

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by mrtron 16y ago
I think we should applaud someone for having the courage to stand up for their basic rights. I don't think you should always take the path of least resistance.
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by mrtron 16y ago
Google Instant is shockingly fast. It is hard to imagine a small startup creating it and having it work for a few beta users. Even harder to imagine Google scaling up their infrastructure 10-fold.
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by mrtron 16y ago
When we created http://markiter.com we decided to present users with two options instead of just asking vague questions. You could compare a few pictures, videos, landing pages, etc. And get some a vote with a comment on which is better.
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by mrtron 16y ago
When we were creating http://markiter.com We did a blog post referencing a study: http://blog.markiter.com/#turk http://behind-the-enemy-lines.blogspot.com/2008/03/mechanica... Which has been updated recently. Some high quality data
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by mrtron 16y ago
Credit cards are in existence now, but what percentage of people own one and use it regularly? The credit limits they give you are laughable - like 80$ US. Like everything else you need to prepay to use it. I think you are discussing the
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by mrtron 16y ago
I don't see how China's demand for commodities could be a bubble. They are building in huge volumes, but they have a huge volume of people. There is a middle class developing. Check out Hans Rosling's talks about it. There may be a tempor
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by mrtron 16y ago
I'll bet once 3D content gets there Apple will sell an amazing 3D TV/monitor for somewhere like 5000. I am sure they aren't ignoring it on their iTouch/iPhone/iPad lineup either.
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by mrtron 16y ago
Avatar was brilliantly glowing and didn't feel dark at all. Am I the only one?
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by mrtron 16y ago
Evidence from Asia: I saw about 5 Kindles and around 10 iPads on my last flight. There was a huge lineup in a store selling iPads and iPhone 4G's for a big markup in HK. People are loving those products and buying them. Definitely premium
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by mrtron 16y ago
I just saw the latest 3D TV (no glasses required) demo'd in HK. Every previous 3D TV looked like garbage. This one seemed to add a new level of depth to the movie without being blurry or looking ridiculous. It is coming, and it is stupid t
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by mrtron 16y ago
Very close. From what he later posts about supervisord monitoring - he is basically hitting a server bottleneck of number of threads, which causes him to run out of memory and get into swap space. Then everything goes to hell and he (supe
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by mrtron 16y ago
I have once or twice. I'll meet up for coffee anytime too if you are interested.
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by mrtron 16y ago
Congrats to the fellow Toronto startup - I met with them shortly after they started and was really impressed with what they had accomplished in a short period of time. And one of my good friends just started there 6 months ago, I finally kn
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Google acquires Toronto startup SocialDeck (social gaming platform)(techcrunch.com)
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by mrtron 16y ago
I will chime in my 2 cents, or coffee advice. Tarsnap should white label the service and keep the existing pricing. It will increase their volume drastically and the really low pricing will allow a lot of people to build a very profitable
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by mrtron 16y ago
The Warren Buffet school of thought on the issue is put your money into a few things you understand really well, and he is one of the better managers of our time. I understand the 'balanced' wealth management approach - I am just not sure i
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by mrtron 16y ago
Free will and randomness are both terms that are really tough to define. It is more the absence of order than a definition of something.
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by mrtron 16y ago
" Just be sure to set high TTL for the records so your DNS server does not collapse under the enormous volume." The attacker, noticing your round-robin approach, decides to drop the DNS server and then only has one host to deal with. There
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by mrtron 16y ago
A balanced portfolio is a very inefficient portfolio. Many people would be willing to take risks, or don't want/need to hedge against everything. His real estate example is a good one - you are at the mercy of housing/renting markets. But
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by mrtron 16y ago
Ah, a load of shit. Canadians are proud to be Canadian. Traveling around has shown me that people often don't know much about Canada, but they recognize the people are nice. That alone is enough to be proud of. The whole 'Canada identity
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by mrtron 16y ago
That is an expressway in China. Cars/carts/people can enter at any point on most expressways, so the average speed is poor at best and stop and go during busy times of the day.
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by mrtron 16y ago
Google would argue with you. They roll a heterogenous server setup intentionally to minimize impact from hardware faults, bugs, etc. You build your software at a high level where the hardware under is abstracted away.
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by mrtron 16y ago
Nope, decomposing like everyone else.
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by mrtron 16y ago
Avoiding carbs is a hack. What it really should say is avoid 80% of the crappy cheap carbs you get from super refined/processed foods and sugars. Just try eating 1000 calories of these categories: -breads -meat -veggies -fruits Which one is
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by mrtron 16y ago
Lift heavy and eat more. Lifting: What are you doing now? Squat every workout, and then switch back and forth between a benchpress/upper body and deadlift/lower body routine. Eating: Eat more, especially protein. You probably will have t
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by mrtron 16y ago
It is easy to say that now - would you have said that about US cable modem accounts 10 years ago?
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by mrtron 16y ago
Back in the olden days of IRC, there was times when entire regions of the internet were taken offline resulting from a ddos for personal vendettas. For exactly that reason too - they attack the weakest link and often it isn't the host dire
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by mrtron 16y ago
It shows the quality of the product when you can be back up and running in about 4 hours. Completely back to where you were at last backup while you go get a coffee. That is a huge win for anyone who lives with their laptop as their primar
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by mrtron 16y ago
Time machine negates the downtime of getting back to where you are at. It has dramatically reduced my lost laptop phobia.
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by mrtron 16y ago
From what perspective? From 99% of users' perspective: blocking rackspace has no effect on them unless they try to switch to posterous. You are one of a handful of users running something else on rackspace for personal use. Sure for 5 user

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