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by rarestnews 17y ago
Changed original comment based on 1. Upvoted your comment too. Still disagree on rest. People will figure out. Also not going to comment on HN ever. All this flame about beliefs isn't worth the time. Twitter is religion :) Thou shalt not t
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by rarestnews 17y ago
I'm posting this only cause you asked, not to start flame war. Like I said don't want to convince you to my opinion (and it would be impossible). ...convince me that Twitter is more useful than harmful (especially to your time and self-asse
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by rarestnews 17y ago
Neither sarcasm, nor direct statement. Just a way to stop argument that would lead us both nowhere. We have different beliefs. I'm not planning of convincing you to my point-of-view (it would pretty much be impossible and also useless for m
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by rarestnews 17y ago
Keep it up, good work!
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by rarestnews 17y ago
So how being corrected for writing what you doing is useful to you? Or feeling of being more connected - is that useful? Or repeating your FaceBook status - is that useful? Or spreading links, which you admit to be not working because of no
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by rarestnews 17y ago
[I really regret writing this post as it started a flame war. Sorry, didn't want to start flame.] WTH? 8 _SPECIFIC_ USEFUL cases mentioned in article: [1. I joined T. and started talking where I was. I was corrected. Useful!] -incorrect, c
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by rarestnews 17y ago
Can't be very sure, but I think they aren't going out of business. They are very big in Russia (I have a few VPSes with them, the numbers are sequential and my IDs are around 20 000).
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by rarestnews 17y ago
I also think often that it would be much greater to be working standing. Anyone tried?
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Standing Workstation(webworkerdaily.com)
12 points by rarestnews 17y ago|6 comments
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by rarestnews 17y ago
Not really an option for US citizens to use Russian version, I think, since all of panels will be in Russian and also you would have to pay in roubles :) /Also you do have to sign a contract in Russian with them and send it back to far east
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by rarestnews 17y ago
Firstvds.ru (they have US branch at minivds.com). VPSes are never "shared", but they are on "shared" server. I.e. you have root access to your own VPS as root, nobody has access to it (1), but there are many VPSes on one physical server. (1
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by rarestnews 17y ago
Kudos for bringing it up. Now we have a conspiracy to find the elusive poor guy with a cellphone. Maybe next decade we'll develop a cryptomobilanthropology hunting for the unbelieveable miracle of elusive poor guy talking on a cell phone hi
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by rarestnews 17y ago
Are you sure you REQUIRE a cloud? Phrase "Amazon is too expensive" suggests that it might be not the solution you're looking for. Maybe you could be a little more clear on what you need, because it's hard to imagine what are your requiremen
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by rarestnews 17y ago
My friend told me the other day he was in a bus, and there he saw a very poor immigrant who was talking on his cell whole trip. I thought this was weird and unusual, but he told me he saw similar thing lots of times. Many of my friends who
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by rarestnews 17y ago
Actually I'm really tired of that Google's attempts. The other day I tried to find a something like a .txt file containing all the verbs. I tired searching for "finding resting searching" without quotes, Google kept giving me "find rest sea
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by rarestnews 17y ago
You can't be that lazy :) http://google.com/search?q=porn+captcha http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7067962.stm http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2007/10/creative_... (note the quoted part from article) and probably a tho
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by rarestnews 17y ago
The Web becomes nano-twitter :) So what's the reasoning behind this? I mean I know WHY this site was created, but rather "Why NO?"
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by rarestnews 17y ago
Also it's sometimes used as porn-bait (i.e. enter captcha to enter the "free" site). Human solving is pretty cheap too. I've heard quotes about $2 for 1000 captchas. I guess with 1 click instead of 5-7 letters + enter - it's going to be cen
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by rarestnews 17y ago
Just IMHO. It seems that the article should a little less categorical. The typesetting example shows that instruments have changed (typesetting machines(or whatever it called?) to desktop computers), but it still exists - there're many peop
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by rarestnews 17y ago
Does it even worth researching? To simplify - provider (let's say Amazon) spends A dollars to build and support data center and makes B dollars profit. It charges you A+B. DIY cost is very close to A (if you're talking datacenter scale). A+
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by rarestnews 17y ago
Oh, thanks for clarification. Still weird though.
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by rarestnews 17y ago
This is probably the 4th place I see this. This seems like a comic of IE being bullied for some farfetched reason by S/FF just to start a fight. I'm guessing I've got it wrong, so... Could somebody explain what exactly is this about?
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by rarestnews 17y ago
This was better http://halbot.haluze.sk/?id=3708 (circa 2006) But agreed with axod, this shouldn't be on HN
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by rarestnews 17y ago
BTW, if you turn off phishing protection - that lowers HDD usage significantly. (But, reasonably enough, by "turning off phishing protection" you have be more attentive to what you're doing online)
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by rarestnews 17y ago
The lib seems impressive. Anything which Python's bindings can do 65K inserts in 110ms deserves a lot of attention!! Now I just have to attempt to make it's Python bindings compile under Windows :( It's hacking time! Thanks for the tip!
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by rarestnews 17y ago
No, actually this is the first time I hear about it. Thanks for a pointer - I'll look into that. Although the LGPL license seems like a downer - if I understand it correctly it means that either I should distribute my software as open sourc
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by rarestnews 17y ago
Many good points! I agree on most part. However, from what I've seen - even while you do a transaction, SQLite seems to write a "journal" file (which is still I/O and still slow). I'm also not saying mySQL should be used for app file format
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by rarestnews 17y ago
The most popular is BerkeleyDB and it's license isn't very friendly for commercial apps. Rest of what I tested are really slow. Also, most of DBM-style databases suffer from same flaws as disk-based SQLite - they don't use memory cache. I p
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by rarestnews 17y ago
I don't really work with SQLite too much (I mainly work with mySQL and in-memory-structures, like hashes), but here are a few observations that kept me from using it: 1. It uses a lot of IO unnecessarily. (Actually, necessarily, due to thei
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by rarestnews 17y ago
I stopped reading at "_startups_ like Digg"

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