oceanplexian

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by oceanplexian 13y ago
Reddit is very young. It feels like yesterday that we were still using Digg.
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by oceanplexian 13y ago
What do you mean "bring down the quality"? This graph is misleading because it shows number of posts as a percentage, not an absolute number. I'm sure there is just as much or more quality content in r/programming and ot
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by oceanplexian 13y ago
Actually I'd trust Boingo more than Facebook as a platform. They've been around since 2001, Facebook since 2004.
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by oceanplexian 13y ago
If your business depends on WiFi (e.g. Coffee Shop), this could potentially hurt business. Only ~50-70% of US Internet users use Facebook and that is dropping. As a business owner I'd be concerned about alienation. Facebook is far from
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by oceanplexian 13y ago
This article is all over the place... They cite the transition to a service-based economy a good match for Agile (Which is a problem in itself). Unfortunately we don't live in that utopian vision. For example, it would be quite unreaso
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by oceanplexian 13y ago
>I'd generally agree that it's much harder to launch a successful business than it is to get into Stanford. I'm a bit skeptical of that point, being that there are a lot more successful small business owners than Stanford
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by oceanplexian 13y ago
Nail on the head. We live in a bizarre world where everyone that founds a startup is often a credentialed, healthy Stanford grad re-implementing an unremarkable idea in network effects. Is it mobile or social? No? You might as well get on t
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by oceanplexian 13y ago
None of the above. Run pfSense on an old x86 box and you'll end up with something an order of magnitude better. As far as an access point goes I'd suggest going with ubiquiti gear if it's in your budget.
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by oceanplexian 13y ago
They don't care about abandonment because anyone can game A/B testing. Users are easily persuaded. A majority of users will give in just so the damn thing shuts up. They probably use the metrics to hand out bonuses or engage in po
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by oceanplexian 13y ago
Probably not. Amazon has intentionally crippled external replication in MySQL for years now. It's a form of vendor lock-in and you shouldn't support it. Without replication it's impossible to migrate out of RDS without taking
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by oceanplexian 13y ago
FYI RDS is no longer HIPAA compliant following the latest Omnibus legislation. You need to be running dedicated instances inside of VPC with your own DB install.
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by oceanplexian 13y ago
You're kidding right? I'd wager that a huge number of MySQL users are using replication. Running a single database in a production environment is totally unacceptable and a major business continuity problem.
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by oceanplexian 13y ago
Percona and pt-online-schema-change is not just "some third-party library". It's an industry-standard tool and one of the most respected forks of MySQL. It's not a layer of maintenance problems and they sell commercial s
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by oceanplexian 13y ago
A hierarchal system of good management. Hiring processes that don't suck. Instead of a complex recruiting maze where you need to have 13 people review new hires (and strive for the lowest common denominator between the group), they nee
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by oceanplexian 13y ago
This image describe my feelings: http://developer.rackspace.com/images/2013-11-11-peanut-butt... Why not just come up with a sane deployment strategy instead of hacking LXC to do it? While Docker is interesting, we&#x2
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by oceanplexian 13y ago
Not really, "Big Data" has nothing to do with how many bytes you're pushing around. Some types of data analytics are CPU heavy and require distributed resources. Your comment about 10G isn't true. You can move around a T
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by oceanplexian 13y ago
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." Anonymous Youtube comments suck, but anonymity enables people to express unpopular opinions. The real problem is tyranny of the majority. Attachi
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by oceanplexian 13y ago
Unless you have a jailbroken phone...
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by oceanplexian 13y ago
Reddit uses an edge-cache for all logged-out content. They pass logged-in content. A cached HTTP document in something like Varnish should take virtually no resources whatsoever. HN is on Cloudflare but they might not be caching pages at th
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by oceanplexian 13y ago
Embedded development is not like web development. Sometimes these things might stay in a remote location sending telemetry data for a few years. I'm surprised, this being GSM, that they don't put a slot on the board as an optional
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by oceanplexian 13y ago
Make sure your upstream or colo provider comes with DDoS mitigation. Nothing within your power can protect you from a multi-gigabit DDoS attack except bandwidth or a black hole route. If you're getting smaller attacks you can try Fail2
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by oceanplexian 13y ago
P2P is definitely a viable solution that makes their job significantly more difficult. It's not nearly that clear what the NSA is doing. I've worked in the NOC and as a datacenter tech at a Regional ISP and we definitely did not h
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by oceanplexian 13y ago
Google isn't being misleading any more than a landlord. You can't run an auto repair shop in an apartment complex; they usually forbid that in the lease. Just because you purchased 800 square feet (or 1Gbps), doesn't mean you
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by oceanplexian 13y ago
While it may sound interesting this says absolutely nothing about the product. "Our idea is simple - that anyone on your team should be able to use any iteration of your app or website with zero configuration." Who is my team and