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by pwaring 14y ago
You could, but that solution isn't of much help to someone with an existing .NET/SQL Server application. Making a few tweaks is probably a lot cheaper than a wholesale change to a different database server.
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by pwaring 14y ago
"There is nothing preventing Facebook from being the next Myspace" You could make a similar argument about Google becoming the next Yahoo! when someone devises a better search algorithm/interface. Most technology stocks are high risk propos
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by pwaring 14y ago
Except you can block read receipts in most sane mail clients (Thunderbird has options for always/prompt/never for example). It doesn't appear that there is a way to block your messages being marked as 'seen' on Facebook, unless it's buried
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by pwaring 14y ago
You can turn that LinkedIn feature off, or at least they claim that you can.
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by pwaring 14y ago
Already (indirectly) posted and discussed yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3965688
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by pwaring 14y ago
As always, it depends on your audience. If 1% of your users have IE, then it may well be too much work to support it - although 8/9 are a massive improvement on 6/7. On the other hand, if you're in my position and run a site where 100% of t
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by pwaring 14y ago
I don't think anyone would seriously buy based on the current figures. If you buy Facebook today, you're hoping for exponential growth over the next few years, at which point you can either sell at a profit or take dividends (if Facebook ev
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by pwaring 14y ago
This reflects my experience (UK) - I get recruiters asking me on a regular basis why they can't find any PHP developers, when I look at the job ad it's because the offers are things like 'experienced mid-level developer, 20-24k'.
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by pwaring 14y ago
You can set up your own resolver - I've done this in the past when I've been with an ISP with dreadfully slow nameservers (they weren't doing any interception, just the service was bad).
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by pwaring 14y ago
Part of the problem with software is that there's so much of it. You don't just have the stuff running on routers, you've got your customer management system, logging + auditing, DNS etc. There's no point in an ISP offering IPv6 if its rout
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by pwaring 14y ago
I think you've got the point I was trying to make the wrong way round. If I set up half a dozen REST services with SSL on a single IP, clients which don't support SNI will experience problems. Last time I checked, libwww in Perl, urllib in
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by pwaring 14y ago
It's not just IE/XP which is the problem, library support for SNI is still pretty poor, which is an issue if you're running REST services.
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by pwaring 15y ago
A fast moving standard is not necessarily a bad thing, provided that changes don't break backwards compatibility. In some ways, I'd like the C standard to move a bit faster, to keep up with things like multi-threading (although there's an a
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by pwaring 15y ago
Absolutely. I work for a 'start-up' in the insurance sector, where everyone uses IE (the only non-IE entries in the access logs are myself on the development sites). If we ignored IE (and I'd love to, given the number of headaches over the
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by pwaring 15y ago
The problem with encryption is that, as far as I'm aware, it doesn't hide the sender/recipient information. You might not be able to read the content, but intelligence agencies are just as interested in who is communicating with whom as the
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by pwaring 15y ago
It's not really sad, some administrators don't like immediately upgrading to the latest and greatest version. Anyone running Debian stable will probably not get 5.4 until 2013.
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by pwaring 15y ago
"other" in that context related to Google, not Microsoft.
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by pwaring 15y ago
I suspect by the time LibreOffice threatens Microsoft, everyone will have moved to Google Docs, or a similar service provided by other companies. I still don't know anyone who uses LibreOffice who isn't a geek.
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by pwaring 15y ago
It's fair that they're upset, 8 years in prison seems overly harsh though. In fact, any time in prison seems a bit over the top for what is essentially a breach of contract and therefore a civil matter between Goldman and the ex-employee.
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by pwaring 15y ago
You can do the same with Symbiosis, which is just a bunch of Debian packages on top of lenny (and soon squeeze): http://symbiosis.bytemark.co.uk/docs/symbiosis.html
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by pwaring 15y ago
I've always run my own email for several reasons: 1. I can choose my domain (although nowadays that's not a problem - it was when I first started). 2. I can tweak spam and anti-virus filtering. 3. I can view the logs if I think something is
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by pwaring 15y ago
It is a daft valuation - for $100bn you could buy the big three quoted supermarkets in the UK (Sainsbury's, Tesco and Morrisons) and control 50% of a market whose main product (food) is a necessity. Or you could do the same in retail bankin
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by pwaring 15y ago
Technically the organisation in breach would receive a penalty, not a fine. I realise that's a bit pedantic but there is a difference (fines can usually only be made and enforced by the courts). The ICO can also prosecute the company and of
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by pwaring 15y ago
The ICO does have a limited budget and powers though, so responding promptly to all complaints might not be possible.
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by pwaring 15y ago
IR35 is not quite the same as whether someone is employed or a contractor - you could claim to be a self-employed contractor when working from home and IR35 would not apply. If you did that then it would be a question of whether you were em
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by pwaring 15y ago
Often you'll buy what's called a 'commercial combined' policy, which will usually cover professional indemnity, employer's liability and product liability (if you sell things), plus extensions such as theft cover. EL is the only compulsory
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by pwaring 15y ago
I don't have exact figures, but each site probably gets a few hundred hits/day, and the mail server probably gets hit every few seconds. The OP made a sweeping "not an option" statement though, not "on a popular site hosted on a VPS".
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by pwaring 15y ago
The latter part is simply not true - I run Apache with mod_php for a number of sites and web services on VPS's with little RAM without any problems, and that's alongside MySQL, Exim and SpamAssassin.
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by pwaring 15y ago
They also have a certain amount of prestige and perceived quality compared with self-publishing. This probably matters less for technical books, but in, for example, academia, there is a huge difference between being self-published and publ
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by pwaring 15y ago
That lesson also applies to every industry, not just publishing. I can't understand why people start a major piece of work (books can take years to write) without having an agreed and signed contract in place - you're just asking to be scre

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