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by rb2k_ 15y ago
What does he actually do on those machines? I have no idea why somebody in the european parliament would want more than 8 GB of RAM. Apparently he runs Visual Studio inside a VM, but I'm not sure why he does a lot of software development.
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by rb2k_ 15y ago
update: worked fine
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by rb2k_ 15y ago
YAY! Seeing as this included snappy compression the last time I checked, I might be able to replace the "couchbase single server" with the couchdb 1.2 release. Anybody tried that upgrade?
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by rb2k_ 15y ago
Not always. It also depends on weather the programmer actually wants to spend a lot of his/her time trying to fiddle with getting the app to run fine on all different OS combinations as opposed to adding new features. It's not the most fu
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by rb2k_ 15y ago
I think that's only the case for 2G (GSM, GPRS, EDGE). UMTS (3G) doesn't do that.
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by rb2k_ 15y ago
I don't think you can actually enter at all without ESTA clearance
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by rb2k_ 15y ago
My (German) perspective on this: I've traveled to the US (always to Boston) a few times over the recent years. While all of the "take your shoes off" stuff is annoying, it's really not that big of a deal. The ESTA process can be done online
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by rb2k_ 15y ago
They do make your exit the security zone on layovers though. That's the reason why I try to avoid CDG if i can. Side note: All google servers are reachable for free over the wifi. (you can e.g. set up an app engine proxy)
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by rb2k_ 15y ago
Also known as: This year will be the year of the linux desktop ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_Linux#Year_of_Desktop_L... )
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by rb2k_ 15y ago
Or as it's known in Germany: "Leider ist das gewünschte Dokument nicht in Ihrem Land verfügbar." Stupid geo restrictions...
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by rb2k_ 15y ago
lowendbox.com is your friend for that kind of stuff
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by rb2k_ 15y ago
http://shop.github.com/products/blacktocat-2-0 is exactly what I was talking about. It has a simple and nice design. Bought :)
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by rb2k_ 15y ago
Thanks for the link. Sadly, that's the kind of style I'd like to avoid. Big square prints, horrible color combinations :(
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Ask HN: good looking "nerdy" t-shirts?
26 points by rb2k_ 15y ago|13 comments
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by rb2k_ 15y ago
I've never encountered one that didn't have working DNS resolution
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by rb2k_ 15y ago
When I feel particularly nerdy, I try to go the DNS2TCP[0] or iodine[1] route. DNS is pretty much always open in those networks. [0] http://hsc.fr/ressources/outils/dns2tcp/index.html.en [1] http://code.kryo.se/iodine/
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by rb2k_ 15y ago
It is. --> http://momo.brauchtman.net/hackernews-meetup-in-stuttgart/ March 29th. I'd watch that page for changes :)
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by rb2k_ 15y ago
My current setup makes me pretty happy in terms of having a speedy blog: Octopress + S3 + Cloudflare. Octopress will generate static HTML and use Disqus for comments: http://octopress.org/ S3 added the ability to serve an index.html file
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by rb2k_ 15y ago
That's probably the link that I've been missing on the page itself.
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by rb2k_ 15y ago
I'm personally fine with NOT buying at a cheaper merchant somewhere else because I know: - Amazon ships fast - Sending things back to Amazon is free and fully automated - If something breaks in a year, Amazon will usually replace it without
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by rb2k_ 15y ago
While I think the idea is interesting, I will say what I always say in these situations: Talk is cheap. I wish people would announce projects when there is actually something to look at rather than just having a vague list of goals. It's li
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by rb2k_ 15y ago
Sure, if I actually knew the correct solution... Seeing as Basho is backing Riak, I would assume that they would invest a little bit of time documenting what they actually did :)
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by rb2k_ 15y ago
It annoys the hell out of me that I can't launch the app by default because it points at directories that aren't user-writeable. Riak just has the etc and var directories inside the tarball. Cassandra just assumes that it is able to write t
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by rb2k_ 15y ago
I love to go back to Riak every now and then and throw one of the bigger datasets I have sitting around at a single node using Ruby. It is one of the most interesting databases out there and it's a breeze to set up (especially when compared
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by rb2k_ 15y ago
PSA: Putting your email address in your profile is important. I once used to be "rb2k", but then I forgot the password I used back then and ended up as "rb2k_". There is no way to reset the password on an account if you're not adding an ema
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by rb2k_ 15y ago
Oh yay, I wonder how enabling Snappy on LevelDB changes the performance characteristics. I really liked the introduction of Snappy to CouchDB, especially for EC2 machines with their usually slow IO
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by rb2k_ 15y ago
It's for hackers. I personally don't care so much for founding a company. I'm interested in freelancing and cool technology.
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by rb2k_ 15y ago
pretty simple: Because that's where @derwildemomo and I both live. I'm sure there are a lot of cities that would be a better fit for the general HN audience, but Stuttgart is boring enough as it is in terms of IT, so we thought we might as
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by rb2k_ 15y ago
Oh shoot... well... I guess you can still count me in
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by rb2k_ 15y ago
Count me in

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