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   by rfugger 16y ago

   I agree that the caps were low and the overage rates seemed high, but it's not actually about the incremental cost of delivering the next gigabyte, it's about the cost of building an infrastructure that can handle hundreds of thousands of p
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   by rfugger 16y ago

   I'm interested in this kind of thing, but I found that article quite unreadable.
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   by rfugger 16y ago

   Jailbreak?
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   by rfugger 16y ago

   That would be bad for anyone with a shared hosting/VPS plan, since most web hosts cap those types of plans.
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   by rfugger 16y ago

   I think a lot of it has to do with scaling up to multi-server clusters where relational properties and ACID guarantees cease to work properly. For small datasets I don't see any benefits over RDBMS.
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   by rfugger 16y ago

   Yes, it was clever, until Google caught them at it and started using it to undercut their "mindshare".
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   by rfugger 16y ago

   Actually, no on the cyclists. Daily global fossil fuel production in 2006 was the equivalent of 155 million barrels, which is 913,900,000,000 MJ, or around 130 MJ per person. The average person eats around 2500 calories, or 10 kJ, less th
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   by rfugger 16y ago

   It's Bell's home and small business customers that will be receiving usage-based bills, not Canadian data centers. I'm pretty sure the government of Canada doesn't subscribe to Bell.
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   by rfugger 16y ago

   By alienating their own customers, Bell will just drive small ISPs to colocate their own routing hardware like Primus already does, so they can continue to offer unlimited plans at competitive rates. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/tec
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    by rfugger 16y ago

    ISPs will lose this argument, and not because governments will necessarily ban them from charging content providers, but because if they try, the content providers will just cut them off. Users care more about Netflix and Youtube than they
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    by rfugger 16y ago

    I didn't know a couple of the acronyms from the article. Here they are in case anyone else is puzzled like I was: CLA: Contributor License Agreement - http://www.ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2010/10/20/open-letter-to-mark... OCS: Open Collaborativ
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    by rfugger 16y ago

    Pyramid discards the Pylons 1.0 code and builds on repose.bfg: http://docs.pylonsproject.org/faq/pylonsproject.html
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    by rfugger 16y ago

    I don't know how easy it would be to adapt, but Django has a mature built-in admin system with a decent layout.
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    by rfugger 16y ago

    Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance The Fountainhead Ishmael by Daniel Quinn The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
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    by rfugger 16y ago

    This is the kind of shit that will do Facebook in eventually. People don't like being exploited for someone else's profit so overtly.
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    by rfugger 16y ago

    Do they know how to keep spammers off their servers? Because if not, it doesn't matter what they know about delivery, they're going to be blacklisted. On the other hand, if their "in-house content filtering technologies" prove effective at
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    by rfugger 16y ago

    You could receive at SendGrid and send at SES to save money.
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    by rfugger 16y ago

    The difference is that Apache wasn't trying to copy the functionality of an extremely popular Microsoft product, they were innovating in a new space that wasn't on Microsoft's radar yet. Open distributed social networking is a great idea,
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    Bitcoin - a Step Toward Censorship-Resistant Digital Currency(eff.org)

    4 points by rfugger 16y ago|0 comments
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    by rfugger 16y ago

    Study from 2009. I wonder why I haven't heard much about this.
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    by rfugger 16y ago

    They used to run Sun dumb terminals in the compsci lab at my university and they sucked when everyone was browsing netscape at once. How will this be any different if every kid in the computer lab is watching youtube?
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    by rfugger 16y ago

    http://blog.mozilla.com/addons/2011/01/20/blocking-the-skype...
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    by rfugger 16y ago

    I generally agree with the ideas, but I'm not sure our culture is as toxic as the tone of the article.
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    by rfugger 16y ago

    A while ago I was having a lot of trouble being productive in my life, and was considering using some of the anti-akrasia techniques posted on HN to keep myself in line. But I also had a nagging feeling that there was more to my procrastin
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    by rfugger 16y ago

    This is why I hate long bike trips: you spend 90% of your time pedaling uphill.
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    by rfugger 16y ago

    To make this work you could do all the per-user stuff with javascript and ajax calls in the browser. It would be quite a bit of revamping though.
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    by rfugger 16y ago

    Quick, someone patent the meta-format.
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    by rfugger 16y ago

    I think he's right when he says that you need to want it as much as you want to breathe to be successful. But I think he's setting his audience up for failure by not pointing out that "success" is defined by that which you want as much as
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    by rfugger 16y ago

    http://nameboy.com/ http://www.bustaname.com/
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    by rfugger 16y ago

    Eric Schmidt as founder #2? Sergey and Larry would disagree...