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by px1999 14y ago
Google has a well documented history of it being next to impossible to talk to a real person unless you have an $X0,000 hardware search appliance or similar. As an individual, if you're not internet famous, you're taking your business into
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by px1999 14y ago
Aah, that explains why it didn't work for me (VM network cards were still active). Seems to me like setTimeout-based polling to your server or something like http://www.msftncsi.com/ncsi.txt is still the best option.
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by px1999 14y ago
You've made a couple of interesting decisions (that I may not have done if I were writing this myself): * Picking CSC over Visual Studio for compiling initially * Explaining namespaces thoroughly in part 2, then glossing over them in 3 (I a
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by px1999 14y ago
I've been playing around with something around this lately, and have found that S3 works pretty well as-is - throw your stuff into a bucket, configure it for a website, and you're pretty much done. The performance is acceptable (IMO) and i
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by px1999 14y ago
The author has this page hosted from a micro EC2 instance, but they could just as easily serve it from S3, avoiding needing to run any servers / pay for anything except for the bandwidth fees (12c/gb). Either way, it's a really neat hack.
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by px1999 14y ago
What the post says makes sense if you assume that it's an entirely cosmetic change, which it's not. YMMV on the styles (I'm undecided on them), but there's a ton of stuff under the hood that just couldn't be slapped into the desktop, withou
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by px1999 14y ago
While not for me (I love Consolas too much), it's great that we're starting to see some useful fonts under permissive licenses (and from big names like Adobe and Google). I remember back in the day when there were only a handful of fonts t
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by px1999 14y ago
I started writing a long-winded response with ideas after looking at your sales site, but realised that it was mostly dancing around to not sound confrontational - these are just some thoughts in no particular order and aren't intended to b
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by px1999 14y ago
I'll bite and try to give some hopefully useful thoughts... You're not just asking someone to give up 120k and join your company, you're asking someone who's probably quite creative (assuming you're trying to hire the right guys) to get com
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by px1999 14y ago
How to: Stop producing shit 1. Produce 10 shit ideas each day 2. Throw them away 3. ??? 4. Profit! TBH I actually agree with these 4 steps, but they're exactly the reason people should continue producing shit. It ma
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by px1999 14y ago
I'm talking about licensing support, not tech support; and more specifically licensing support of a service rather than a product. Microsoft don't charge you to talk to a person when you have issues activating windows (and I've never had on
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by px1999 14y ago
The txt file isn't just about the user though, it's to aid in indexing useful information from the site, so having some sort of breakdown into nested administrative divisions is something that makes sense (after all, I don't just say "I'm l
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by px1999 14y ago
Living in multiple countries always has, and always will be a huge hassle when it comes to DRM-ed wares / online shopping (there's usually a tangible benefit from saying that you live somewhere that you're not currently, because of regional
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by px1999 14y ago
Looks really useful at serving the stuff that you can't find anywhere else (and for whatever reason don't want to host yourself), but IMO it really needs a TOS / license - I'm guessing that I can use it on personal sites, but can I use it o
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by px1999 14y ago
Yeah, I've read a bunch of stuff from Agrawal before - his criticism of Groupon isn't particularly new. I'm not saying that his issues with it aren't legitimate (I don't really disagree with anything that he's saying), and his stance again
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by px1999 14y ago
I mostly got away without buying new textbooks after first-year - there were a couple of classes where I needed them, but in a lot of cases I knew people who'd taken it before and lent me the book / the prof had kept with the old version (o
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by px1999 14y ago
Pretty much everything surrounding tertiary education needs disruptive companies to come in and restructure it - but particularly the dodginess around textbooks / school bookstores. On the surface the conditions even almost seem ideal - you
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by px1999 14y ago
I'm having trouble trying to figure out who Twitter's trying to target with these changes - and can't figure out if: 1. They want to corner the advertiser & business market - ie it's an attack on Hootsuite etc 2. They want to lock out c
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by px1999 14y ago
IIRC with 2008 R2, they didn't limit functionality if you didn't activate, they just took away the background and popped up a dialog when the system started. Activation was really only necessary to make sure you were licensed correctly (w
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by px1999 14y ago
I've spoken to software devs who (kind of) liked their software appearing on filesharing sites - it was validation that they'd made something worth being cracked and pirated. Coelho's points are definitely interesting but it seems to hinge
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by px1999 14y ago
My best guess is that they're trying to say that whatever www runs off looks at the host header, and that they'd need to do some additional work in either 301ing requests, or set up a reverse proxy. In either of these cases, yeah, the head
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by px1999 14y ago
Thanks for the explanation! I'm usually pretty sceptical when people step outside the stuff provided by whatever framework they're building on (something which devs at my workplace are always a little keen to do, which occasionally winds u
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by px1999 14y ago
The last point in the article mentions it, but if you just drop it into your application without taking the time to set the secret key / IV, they'll both be set to UTF-8 encodings of "deadbeefdeadbeef". It's odd that they didn't want to use
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by px1999 14y ago
I don't think that the main problems are in name / marketing. While these, and price (which is a legit concern) definitely contribute, the whole idea doesn't sit that well with me. First off, what exactly is it? JSON-based message bus Paa
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by px1999 14y ago
I don't have any proof to provide (and if I did, it would all be anecdotal) but I've heard rumours that Microsoft are planning on breathing life into codeplex and have an exciting/significant set of changes in the pipeline (which should imp
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by px1999 14y ago
I don't think I see the point, aside from for historical reasons and printing (though that one's already been solved quite thoroughly...) The beauty of electronic displays is that they can be tailored to your specific wants and needs. If I
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by px1999 14y ago
You could, but I don't really see any difference between this and just slapping many tb of unrelated data in the database - the smart attacker will realise that a bunch of accounts are fake and just join to a table that holds only data for
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by px1999 14y ago
Context: I'm an Australian living in Western Canada working in the tech sector. A lot of the points that are raised here are really valid - Canada has a lot going for it culturally and in quality of life. But the infrastructure to help fost
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by px1999 14y ago
This is definitely a useful feature (even more powerful when combined with route53); and $44 a year per IP address isn't too shabby either. I'm curious if this is a way to try to stay ahead of Azure's plans to try to corner hosting with th
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by px1999 14y ago
The iOS/mac app store is a bit of a crapshoot from what I hear these days with developers either making very significant sums of money or not very much at all. I'd expect the Windows store to be similar when it comes out. If you manage to

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