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by risotto 16y ago
Amazon is fine with it, according to the WSJ. http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/11/29/wikileaks-using-amazo...
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by risotto 16y ago
As it's mostly static content, they're likely just using Amazon as a CDN, which isn't very expensive at all. Makes perfect sense actually. It'll be interesting to see what Amazon has to say about this.
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by risotto 16y ago
ICANN, world governments and the entire TLD system are incestuously intertwined. ICANN is a US corporation mandated by Clinton and George W. Bush. The Internet is ARPANET.
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by risotto 16y ago
I'll play a bit of a contrarian and say that I'm not the least concerned about this. The Internet is a grossly complicated system, and the ability to have nfljerseysupply.com resolve to your website is far from a given right. ISPs, web host
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by risotto 16y ago
Basic. TI-Basic on the TI-89, to be more specific. And math at the same time.
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by risotto 16y ago
Please don't forget that your real reputation is what definitely gets you a great job. "Hey bossman, my great friend XXX, who I worked with at YYY, is getting bored over there. He's a great programmer and would be a great fit for our team
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by risotto 16y ago
Quite fair! Google code is sweet
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by risotto 16y ago
Are you sitting in a chair? Do you not work at Github? Then you're armchair quarterbacking. We all are. Even if you are a quarterback for another team (I'm a DBA myself) Anyway, it's a great discussion so we can learn from other peoples mis
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by risotto 16y ago
After you make them, sure. But trying to predict mistakes before they happen can be difficult to impossible.
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by risotto 16y ago
The half a million users validates their techniques, no matter how much armchair quarterbacking. The code repos were never in danger, and they've been killing it in the market because they are racing to add awesome extra features, not racin
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by risotto 16y ago
I wonder if this is a rails thing. It's an out of the box pattern to put production, development and testing credentials into one database configuration file. Also from what I know Github is a flat org where all the devs have ability to do
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by risotto 16y ago
Git itself handles robustness for what counts -- the source code and revision history. This outage did not affect repos as far as I have heard. Backing up and restoring mysql is an orthogonal problem. The fact that github can operate at all
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by risotto 16y ago
Yes it's a bt scary that mint stores passwords but putting this all on mint is wrong. For one, don't use Mint if you are concerned about their system arechetecture. Wesabe stored passwords locally and did the scraping from your client side.
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by risotto 16y ago
I've done a lot of Django, Rails and PHP. The choice always depends on what your app looks like. If your app has a lot of non-user facing CRUD (i.e. a CMS or publishing app), Django offers some incredible shortcuts with the built-in admin a
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by risotto 16y ago
Useless is a bit harsh. It is, after all, a big web app that is nothing but fresh screenshots and reviews of apps. Somehow my friends and I manage to find tons of awesome apps all the time. Google can be pretty awful to find software on. Se
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by risotto 16y ago
Who actually uses UberCab? Taxi Magic is a fantastic app that's totally legit. Open the app, use your location to book a cab and within 5 minutes it's there. It's Luxor Cabs who are fully licensed and use computerized dispatch. I tried Uber
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by risotto 16y ago
I'm quite glad WP7 is looking like a real contender. Viable competition raises the bar for all phone companies, and consumers ultimately win. This is a really fun time to be a a gadget lover -- Microsoft, Google, Apple, Nokia, etc. are bend
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by risotto 16y ago
Bump your price up to cover Apple's cut. And shut down your servers / payment processor / update system, and enjoy your new found time to work on TextMate2 instead of maintaining infrastructure for TextMate 1. TextMate is a great case study
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by risotto 16y ago
The fact that once one user reports the malware, apple can: Revoke the developer's code signing keys Freeze the developer's payments Alert the authorities about the developer Revoke the app from the app store Push an "upgrade" notification
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by risotto 16y ago
Getting a job is about networking. My little brother graduated this past summer from University with an gasp Anthropology degree and he has 3 job offers to decide from. The big difference is that he schmoozed the shit out of his TAs and p
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by risotto 16y ago
At least that part made me laugh...
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by risotto 16y ago
We all love hacking, and try to make as much money from it as possible. Making money and making your work available for mass consumption is not orthogonal to loving your work.
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by risotto 16y ago
I don't really know how it works to get into an IPO, but I'm very interested too. Netflix and Hulu represent the (slow but certain) change of video broadcasting.
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by risotto 16y ago
I've been feeling this recently but had some breakthroughs about it. A very experienced adult has strong notions of what is possible. If you're around very successful people these notions are lofty. Sure it's possible to bang out a program
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by risotto 16y ago
You are correct. It's generally used for illegal purposes. I'd like to think there's some grey area. If I pay for cable, and have access to Hulu, can I torrent a copy of House too? Probably not since the rip is stripped of advertising. And
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by risotto 16y ago
Not quite a real BitTorrent app, but still a nice move forward. I doubt it's any coincidence that Apple started relaxing their grip on the App Store with the release of the iOS AppleTV. This is too many platforms and markets to leave vulner
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by risotto 16y ago
Excellent news. I'm still skeptical about Apple's intentions after 14 months of stubbornness, but it never ceases to amaze how quickly the phone ecosystem changes. The corporations, developers and consumers all deserve credit for the sophis
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by risotto 16y ago
This isn't DHHs fault, but I think this is the straw that broke the camel's back w.r.t. my own reading of "startup news." This advice is worthless. Everything is possible in business. Get acquired and snuffed out, get acquired and blow up,
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by risotto 16y ago
Wrong. Hardware provider => platform provider => application provider. This is the hierarchy of the cloud-era Internet. Think AWS => Engine Yard Cloud => Zendesk. Hardware is becoming a utility. AWS is billed exactly like el
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by risotto 16y ago
I saw a demo of Mongrel2, and it's really slick. Lots of new concepts to get behind, which is both scary and exciting. There's no way I can use it for anything remotely close to production but I have some hobby ideas baking...

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