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Posterous is hiring Rails, Infrastructure and Android Engineers(posterous.com)
101 points by rantfoil 16y ago
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Simplest and most concise Twitter OAuth implementation (twoism.posterous.com)
18 points by rantfoil 16y ago|4 comments
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by rantfoil 16y ago
Posterous is hiring Rails Engineers and Infrastructure Engineers - San Francisco We're a YC-funded startup that's working on posting the world's information. We're just 7 engineers and looking to hire people who love the consumer web, belie
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Better rate limiting with HAProxy(blog.serverfault.com)
1 points by rantfoil 16y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: webmetrics/pingdom alternative for global response times?
11 points by rantfoil 16y ago|3 comments
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by rantfoil 16y ago
Usually it means using a hardware solution like Intruguard or going through a third party vendor that resells Intruguard and/or other proprietary anti-DDOS technology. We've opted to use Gigenet, and they're holding the line right now quite
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by rantfoil 16y ago
They better. So far so good.
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by rantfoil 16y ago
It's tough -- if someone is hitting you at > 1gbps, that exceeds a gigabit ethernet port -- typically on shared services you only pay for that much. Any more than that and it affects all the other customers on the shared network. So yes
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by rantfoil 16y ago
Custom domains are unaffected, no action needed.
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by rantfoil 16y ago
We're getting about 500k packets per second, 500mbps to 1.5gbps peak, it's a synflood from a botnet. Typically we can IP hop and null-route the old IP's. That usually buys us about a day until the botnet phones home to get the new IP's, at
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Ad man Alex Bogusky annotates a recent Fast Company article about him(alexbogusky.posterous.com)
3 points by rantfoil 16y ago|0 comments
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by rantfoil 16y ago
I voted it up because its a pain point that I experienced recently. I suspect anyone who tries to map out a schedule for a project has in the past searched in vain for something like this. I ended up buying OmniPlan. But maybe that's not ne
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by rantfoil 16y ago
CNAMEs totally work -- the problem is that they override MX records. Earlier on we used to encourage users to use CNAMEs, but then they would inadvertantly lose ALL their email, even if we tried to explain to them that they shouldn't use CN
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by rantfoil 16y ago
Sorry you feel that way. A lot of our users have been thankful for a personal response. I think we can agree to disagree here.
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by rantfoil 16y ago
How Microsoft may interview candidates has no bearing on what they may direct them to do once hired.
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by rantfoil 16y ago
Posterous is hiring frontend and backend engineers, Rails preferred but not required -- http://posterous.com/jobs Located in the Mission, San Francisco. Great warehouse loft space, all you can drink beer, soda, juice, competitive salary a
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by rantfoil 16y ago
My faves include http://jamlegend.com http://gotreehouse.com/
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Friction in Human-Computer Symbiosis: Kasparov on Chess(blog.palantirtech.com)
1 points by rantfoil 16y ago|0 comments
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by rantfoil 16y ago
Added. This is a great option.
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by rantfoil 16y ago
SOMA just has a rather metallic personality. The rest of SF generally has a lot of history and character. SOMA is mainly young urban professionals, many of whom commute to Silicon Valley or peninsula jobs via Caltrain or driving (easy acces
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by rantfoil 16y ago
Thanks, you're right. Fixed!
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by rantfoil 16y ago
I've never lived in Sunnyvale. Where would you recommend? Near downtown? Also agree about Millbrae being boring. I put it there because its kind of a sweet spot due to multiple transit options (both Caltrain and BART). Most startups will be
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by rantfoil 16y ago
Added! I agree, Berkeley rocks. But very far from Palo Alto / Sand Hill.
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Guide to where your cofounders should live in the SF Bay(maps.google.com)
179 points by rantfoil 16y ago|125 comments
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by rantfoil 16y ago
A whole class of Internet startups, including AirBnb (YC-funded) are affected by this anti-competitive legislation pushed forward by big-money NYC hotel interests.
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Save NYC sublets and vacation rentals from anti-competitive bill(savenysublets.com)
118 points by rantfoil 16y ago|36 comments
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IPhone 4 Antenna problem is UX: What the user doesn't know makes them happy.(garry.posterous.com)
3 points by rantfoil 16y ago|0 comments
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by rantfoil 16y ago
This is great feedback. We hope to get this in soon. Thanks very much for the support and suggestions.
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by rantfoil 16y ago
Amen.
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by rantfoil 16y ago
Warm intros from influentials. YC helped us a bunch, as did our existing network.

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