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Highly Available WordPress on AWS: Don’t Learn the Hard Way(medium.com)
2 points by rtisdale 8y ago|1 comments
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by rtisdale 8y ago
Link? How many players are supported at a time? I frequently get together with friends and chill on some Discord’s and Slack Channels for gaming. I can probably scrounge a few people together to give it a go. Also: shoutout to FOSS game dev
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by rtisdale 8y ago
It's about what each of these statistics measure. As another user mentioned, the U3 is a very narrow definition that is largely useful for measuring the cost of unemployment benefits, it does not give a true idea of the real unemployme
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by rtisdale 8y ago
>No, U-3 is not misleading. The U-3 is exactly what it's defined as. In that sense, it isn't misleading. It is misleading in the sense that it does not capture what unemployment actually is as it's a very narrow definition
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by rtisdale 8y ago
These articles are almost always based off the wonderfully misleading U-3 statistic instead of the U-6. https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/080415/true-... The U-6 unemployment rate is nearly doub
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by rtisdale 8y ago
>He says he tried to work within the system and was ignored, but he's provided 0 evidence to back it up. Thanks to another one of the cornerstones of our democracy, Freedom of the Press, here is an article to refute your point. htt
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by rtisdale 8y ago
>In other words Snowden's taught millions of young people he influences that working within the frameworks of politics and the law is pointless and can't create the lasting change they hope for. Snowden attempted to expose an i
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by rtisdale 8y ago
Beat me to it. Do open source projects just not check for name conflicts when creating their packages? It would seem prudent for this kitty to consider changing it's name to help alleviate confusion.
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by rtisdale 8y ago
I know most of the people here are generally senior so might not be engaging in this sort of thing. If you are sharing credentials though, the article might be useful read for you. I also mention a great tool by the guys over at Widdix for
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Basic Security for the Operations Impaired: Stop Sharing Credentials(roberttisdale.com)
3 points by rtisdale 8y ago|1 comments
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by rtisdale 8y ago
A major reason I still maintain a Windows install (I dual boot with Mint) is: A. I game. Lots of stuff supported on Linux now but not some of my most often played games. B. I use Traktor for DJing and produce with Ableton. Low latency audio
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by rtisdale 8y ago
I’ve tried fish shell a few times and ended up preferring ZSH. To my understanding Fish shell doesn’t have complete BASH compatibility and it breaks many scripts. It also doesn’t seem to have nearly as wide of an adoption as ZSH so less ove
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by rtisdale 8y ago
woosh http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/diabeetus
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by rtisdale 8y ago
American here. "Anglo", as you might call it. As other commenters have mentioned, perhaps not outright, your comment carries a great deal of racist undertones. I've travelled a bit through Europe and have travelled through Me
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by rtisdale 8y ago
Author here! If you read the article, I hope you enjoyed it. Happy to hear any feedback or war stories from people dealing with Wordpress on AWS :D.
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You Shouldn't Host Wordpress on AWS (Except When You Should)(roberttisdale.com)
3 points by rtisdale 8y ago|1 comments
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by rtisdale 8y ago
Hey everyone, author here. I wrote this article after spending a lot of time trying to figure out how I should charge for my services as a freelancer and was unable to find anything else that fit my needs. I recently made some corrections t
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Freelance Pricing: How does that work?(roberttisdale.com)
3 points by rtisdale 8y ago|2 comments
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by rtisdale 8y ago
I agree that AWS pricing and documentation can be incredibly obtuse in some cases and that it's often overkill for small personal projects. Vultr and Digital Ocean are incredibly competitive from a performance per dollar perspective, w
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by rtisdale 8y ago
Great points on the T2 Unlimited and an interesting solution for enabling T2 Unlimited and alerting. I was sure to add a note to the article after a few people here mentioned it. Thanks for sharing your thoughts :).
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by rtisdale 8y ago
Howdy appdrag. I've added a note about T2 unlimited to my article, I will likely be writing up another article in the near future explaining T2 Unlimited concepts. Thanks for the note!
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by rtisdale 8y ago
Author here, thanks for the suggestion! I just added a note about T2 Unlimited and will see about writing a follow up post explaining the new T2 Unlimited concepts. EDIT: Added the note and gave a shout out, thanks again :).
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by rtisdale 8y ago
Howdy, I'm the author :) I definitely agree, for high traffic applications a compute or memory optimized instance are more optimal choices due to the consistent performance, especially when price isn't as much of a concern. In sit
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AWS EC2 T2 Instances Demystified: Don’t Learn the Hard Way(roberttisdale.com)
147 points by rtisdale 8y ago|38 comments
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by rtisdale 9y ago
Howdy, I investigated your issues page and the previous comment may be related to the following issue. https://github.com/kyranb/SoundCloud-Feed-Cleaner/issues/10 After loading a fresh copy of the page, the t