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by necro 15y ago
The point I'm trying to make is....shifting the pain point. In this example itunes has been shifted past a particular persons pain (time/cost) point to be a convenient legal solution. Good point on the non availability in certain regions.
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by necro 15y ago
So I may be a 30 something professional who's resources vs cost point is that I don't need to look for crappy versions of files. My time is much more valuable, but I believe that everyone is not like me. My contention is that if you took a
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by necro 15y ago
Don't kill the messenger, but here is a real scenario. My "friend" used to use megaupload, filesonic, and other services to watch all his tv content every night, and even paying for a megaupload account (never putting any money back to the
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by necro 15y ago
We use google for our domain email. In order to handle uploads via email on this same domain we simply create a new account and send emails to this account. You then can have a hook (imap push) in google imap to detect when an email is r
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by necro 15y ago
That is the scary part isn't it. I'm sure only ruby users exist and that's awesome, but I would wager that most ruby users in the web field are rails users, and many blur where one starts and the other begins.
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by necro 15y ago
I think we're getting at the same thing. The time example is used as a comparative generalization that there is a need to focus and understand the fundamentals. The point being that given some period of time, if an average individual choos
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by necro 15y ago
I was at conference recently talking to a group of "developers" and one finally asked, so what kind of language requirements do you have of the people you hire. I answered that I don't really have any requirements of the specific language.
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by necro 15y ago
You miss the point. You would have already jumped off a cliff. This is one thing you do before. Of course try all the other things. But if you _are_ on the ledge, consider this before. If you think about it, is the consideration of thi
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by necro 15y ago
If someone is at that stage where you are contemplating this, here is a tip....just do it. By that I mean commit suicide of your _current_ life, not of life. Most of what weights someone down are the fears, struggles, embarrassment, your p
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by necro 15y ago
The temperature slider at the top which when changed dynamically shows the gas/liquid/solid state of each element is a nice touch.
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by necro 15y ago
Speaking of trusting google... there was a situation at a company I worked at where the management strongly was against transferring the company mail system to google apps/mail because of the concern of google may read their email. They wa
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by necro 15y ago
Im a bit conservative when it comes to hardware like raid controllers. My choice was 3ware. They are by no means the fastest, in fact the performance sucks compared to others. I went to a company that builds storage systems, but will buil
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by necro 15y ago
I have to agree. I put our stuff in a colo 2 years ago and never looked back. Pretty much all servers come with some kind of remote console interface IPMI, and that's not terminal redirection, thats actually a totally self contained microp
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by necro 15y ago
The quality is relative. As HA has gotten more popular the level of experience of the average user has gone down, and they now dicate more what "quality" is. In the past you had a higher percentage of core "hackers", and they were posting
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by necro 15y ago
Perhaps this then... if ($network=='at&t') { $initcwd=1; } else { $initcwd=10; } I think a reasonable increase in initcwd for mobile makes sense. I imagine most mobile pages are smaller too. The way I look at it, I want to increas
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by necro 15y ago
Great writeup. Have been hacking initcwd to way back when it was just hardcoded in the kernel. Other parameters not mentioned that control congestion: 1. net.ipv4.tcp_slow_start_after_idle By default this is set to 1, which means, in a long
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by necro 15y ago
I worked at one of the major GPS manufacturers as a hardware/firmware designer and we stopped tracking above a certain altitude and over a certain velocity due to government policy. I remember one time there was a bug report from a customer
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by necro 15y ago
Perhaps the most obvious difference is that with siege you can specify a list of URLs that you want accessed ( some could cause reads and others writes) and in so more realistically load your website as a whole. Testing a single url with ab
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by necro 15y ago
I do use siege, but it seems that the keepalive support in siege is broken. At least their man says - DONT USE IT. So many people use ab, for whatever reasons, and if they do, they should be aware of this quirk.
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Apache Bench - you may be using the timelimit option incorrectly(pinkbike.com)
14 points by necro 15y ago|5 comments
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by necro 15y ago
You serve all you content via HTTPS? Including most static files/images, even though you have some non HTTPS objects which are not encrypted (and the browser notifies users of this). Perhaps there is some business reason you have for this
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by necro 16y ago
Here is our 10/s crawl stats too. Thought I'd share to get a contrast. Though about half the page crawls per day. Note the page load times :) Oops, recent regression due to building an internal cloud. So you're right, not out of the ordin
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by necro 16y ago
Based on that interface I would predict... middle number: for the graphical choices as it's common/easier to get a valid first click in the middle of the slider. high number: for the key entry as if most people are right handed it's easier
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by necro 16y ago
That is a possibility for sure. Since pb is a younger audience my gut feel is that there are a lot of users who are simply clueless about what browser they are using and just don't know better. Whether they do anything about is another sto
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by necro 16y ago
So IE6 still accounts for about 1 million monthly page views on our site...about 1.5% of the traffic. Yesterday we took the plunge and decided to display an eyesore of a box on every page on our site if you surf to it with ie6. Example of
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by necro 16y ago
Yup. I actually wrote a filter to our framework when it was built years ago, but as new people help out on dev they don't always use the framework. My bad and I do appreciate the smack. I humbly bow to you with egg on my face.
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by necro 16y ago
It's a good point, and in retrospect I may not have used the username.example.com pattern, but this was a choice made may years ago. Users seem to like this, and unfortunately these recent changes in browsers make this pattern less desirab
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by necro 16y ago
The thing to note is that implementation of browser prefetching is further putting DNS requests out of the control of the publishers. 10 billion queries was something like 5000 dns req/s and that is considerable resources of some dns servi
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Saved 10 billion DNS queries per month by disabling DNS Prefetching(pinkbike.com)
159 points by necro 16y ago|50 comments
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by necro 16y ago
Difference of the art unzipped maybe 500 bytes but the difference gzipped is only 150 bytes. Also this argument of comparing home internet bandwidth overage is only valid if you are serving a site like this from your home :) If you think yo

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