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by mryan 15y ago
If you don't have access to the .htaccess file you can use WP plugins to set up 301s, e.g. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-301-redirects/ Routing all blog traffic through your VPS is a bad idea, IMHO. Your VPS becomes a single
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by mryan 15y ago
If you are confident (really confident!) that you could deliver in 6 weeks, go for it. The publicity from launching at a large-ish conference should make up for the additional stress caused by a hard, external deadline.
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by mryan 15y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if this was some kind of web service, rather than running fully within the car.
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by mryan 15y ago
Many of the factors affecting traffic jams are a result of human drivers. This animation demonstrates two causes of traffic jams - 'waves' and zip merging: http://trafficwaves.org/tanim.html I think it is rather easy to see how a central
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by mryan 15y ago
In this case you get the best of both worlds - if you mock the third-party API you can do TDD on all of your code, but you still get all the thrill and excitement of debugging when the API doesn't behave entirely as advertised!
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by mryan 15y ago
> Would it be wise to use something like Redis for follow/following and facebook style updates (Bill, John, Mary, and 4 others loved this photo; Bobby, Rick, and Jane are now following you; etc)? These examples are some of the best use
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by mryan 15y ago
s/insight/incite/ :) > Would using Redis for more than a cache store be overkill in my application? It depends what scale you are at. I work for a startup that does something similar (not Pinterest) and we make heavy use of Redis for al
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by mryan 15y ago
I like VMWare's (free) ESXi. It is lacking some of the higher end features, but I find it great for running dev machines. http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere-hypervisor/overview.h...
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by mryan 15y ago
I had exactly the same sentiments while reading the article. A rather unexpected source for such an article. I would like to add the Guardian to your list of newspapers which make innovative use of data: http://www.guardian.co.uk/data
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by mryan 15y ago
Well, I formed a legal entity for my startup, but have yet to launch. Not sure if that counts!
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by mryan 15y ago
Why not fork the project, add some of these topics, and send a pull request? I'm not being snarky or sarcastic - I personally would love to see some of the more advanced topics you mention included in the list of patterns, in particular loa
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by mryan 15y ago
There is a difference between registering your domain with GoDaddy, and using GoDaddy's DNS servers. The wikipedia.org domain is (currently) registered with GoDaddy. Wikipedia run their own DNS servers.
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by mryan 15y ago
Driving Technical Change sounds like an appropriate book. I have not read it, but it has been on my tech books wish-list for a while now: http://pragprog.com/book/trevan/driving-technical-change
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by mryan 15y ago
Definitely - I used to be a sysadmin a company which sells premium support/implentation/design/etc. on top of an open-source CMS.
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by mryan 15y ago
http://www.worldwidewebsize.com/ suggests Google is currently indexing around 46 billion web pages. Running a regex across that amount of data would be a lot more than 10x slower. You say you would be happy to wait days for a result, but
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by mryan 15y ago
On Linux? This seems pretty easy to do, although I have not tried yet. http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/backup-gmail-in-linux-with-get...
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by mryan 15y ago
http://2011.djangocon.eu/schedule/ still has a list of talks - not entirely convenient, but easier than watching the first few mins of each video.
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by mryan 15y ago
It is often used to show that something took a long time to do, although rarely do you see so many occurrences in one sentence!
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by mryan 15y ago
Thanks for the feedback Patrick. I had not thought about the day/* pass option, so far I have been looking at hourly rates. Users will deposit funds to their account, and when the server is started the cost will be deducted from their balan
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by mryan 15y ago
Yes, this will be possible - I will go in to more detail in a blog post, but essentially you will be able to create a group of people who can pool resources, and then pay for servers with funds from that pool. It might not be in the beta -
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by mryan 15y ago
It sounds like you and your friends are the type of people I am building this for. Email invites are on the to-do list, although I am not sure whether or not I will enable that for the beta yet. I haven't thought about the implementation ye
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by mryan 15y ago
1) The charges will be in hourly increments to keep things simple. I might explore different options in future. 2) I'm not sure about this one, I think it might need to be an option the user can set. I would hate to be in the position where
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by mryan 15y ago
Thanks for taking the time to write up your thoughts. I think the niche is a bit wider than that - the response from gaming community has been positive so far, so it suggests quite a few people are having this problem. Wrt 24 hour marathons
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by mryan 15y ago
Thanks for the feedback and good wishes snikolic. I was in a similar situation to your customers - I would rent an L4D2 server for a few months, then let it expire if I was spending "too much" time on a new game. This was the initial inspi
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by mryan 15y ago
Thanks for the feedback! I'll work on making the games list more prominent. As for "many more", I'll be posting a poll to see what gamers would like to play first.
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Review my startup idea: Multiplayer game servers on demand
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by mryan 16y ago
How have you built the back-end without using some kind of client for testing? If you have spent three years developing the back end, I'm not sure you are a noob to all things programming. Why not use the same language you used to create th
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by mryan 16y ago
At various times I have seen songs that look like they have been uploaded from someone's MP3 collection (e.g. search for "mp3") - this makes me wonder how legit their licensing really is. Although perhaps they recognise which songs are bein
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by mryan 16y ago
Chrome has a single icon (wrench, far right) to replace the entire menu system. The first time I used Chrome I was thrown by the lack of a menu bar, but only for the five seconds or so that it took me to find that button. After getting used
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by mryan 16y ago
I must admit I was looking for this as soon as I started reading the article - I just knew there would be a family connection in there somewhere. The article also notes that: * Diveroli's company was actually a shell company transferred to

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