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by sehrope 12y ago
> $500/month for a service like this? $500/mo sounds like peanuts for what a service like this provides. For a business that would use this type of information ( e.g. TV shows like Daily Show or Colbert or a political campaign
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TV monitoring service is fair use, judge rules(arstechnica.com)
131 points by sehrope 12y ago|34 comments
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A Mobius Strip Track Makes Magnet Hovercrafts Even Cooler(gizmodo.com)
2 points by sehrope 12y ago|0 comments
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by sehrope 12y ago
Assembly is a piano wire, you're gonna get your hands dirty and nobody will hear about it.
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by sehrope 12y ago
> Chattanooga has the largest high-speed internet service in the US, offering customers access to speeds of 1 gigabit per second – about 50 times faster than the US average. The service, provided by municipally owned EPB, has sparked a t
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by sehrope 12y ago
Including typos in the spam messages falls in this same category. If seeing typos in an "official communication" triggers your alarm bells then you probably would not fall for whatever scamola it's a part of. It'd be in
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by sehrope 12y ago
> Heroku needs to open source the testing it has used to claim 3X performance. The bottom of the bar chart says: Database performance was measured using pg bench with 150 concurrent clients performing read-only transactions. pgbench[1]
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It's official: You can now legally carrier-unlock your mobile in the US(theregister.co.uk)
3 points by sehrope 12y ago|0 comments
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by sehrope 12y ago
> This is all well and good, but why does everyone need to have their own damn app? I can't comment on this new app yet but I'm a near daily user of the regular NPR app ( which I think is officially called "NPR news"
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by sehrope 12y ago
> So if your Twitter password happens to be the same as your ATT password, you're out of luck. Why would you have both passwords be the same? That makes no sense. All passwords should be different. > I only use two factor authent
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by sehrope 12y ago
Does anyone know of a city that has an open API for accessing whether or not there are cars parked at it's metered spots[1]? For cities that haven't switched to shared muni-meters, the existing parking meters seem like the natural
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by sehrope 12y ago
Besides the usual scaling they'll get from the larger org and cross marketing ( e.g. I'm guessing people who book with OpenTable travel more than the average person ), imagine Priceline combining its "name your own price&quot
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by sehrope 12y ago
Purely a guess but I think they only allow for numbers because it's a phone company. If they intend for people to enter their password/pin on their mobile phone then limiting it to only digits that you can type from any phone is u
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by sehrope 12y ago
> Hence on top of command line applications. The power and flexibility are still there for people who want them, but so are the GUIs. You don't want the GUI to be " on top of " the command line. A CLI makes for a terrible
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by sehrope 12y ago
Yes the lack of syncing is notably missing. That's kind of the tradeoff you get for not using a central service or listing the sites themselves in plaintext ( see my note about pass below ). I handle it by having a separate private rep
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by sehrope 12y ago
> The main issue I have is password that I don't use often at all. I usually can't remember them, or if I can, I cannot associate between password and website. Yet another reason I love using a password manager[1]. Besides lett
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by sehrope 13y ago
Nice module. Logo is pretty nifty too. The default "well known" server list is particularly useful. If you happen to use this with AWS watch out though. It's hard coded to US east. If you're not in that region then you s
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by sehrope 13y ago
This reminds me of the plot to a Mark Twain short story[1] about an artist that fakes his own death to profit from the posthumous increase in the value of his work. Been a while but I remember it being a a fun read. [1]: Called "Is He
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by sehrope 13y ago
> The problem appears to have been more straight forward than any of that. The actual transaction system was a different system from the order entry/webs system. It ran orders in serial after a delay using some kind of message passi
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by sehrope 13y ago
> You can use an ACID compliant database and run into this problem, it's a classical race condition. No it's not. It's just sloppy code and/or a misunderstanding of database transactions and isolation levels. If you u
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by sehrope 13y ago
> It is faster paced games where you can't do everything server side that are the problem, first person shooters being the prime example. First person shooters can be ( and I believe usually are ) done server side. Official movement
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How I Write SQL, Part 1: Naming Conventions(launchbylunch.com)
4 points by sehrope 13y ago|0 comments
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by sehrope 13y ago
Yes my mistake on that. I'm mixing up 9.2 ( where you had to do use plv8 ) and 9.3 ( which has the native operator ). The rest of the comment still stands though, a parsed representation makes the operator faster and more efficient.
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by sehrope 13y ago
> JSON in postgres is just a container type isn't it? At the moment JSON is stored in a text field so accessing a JSON field involves parsing the entire text value. If instead the JSON is stored in a parsed binary format then you ca
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Netflix slow on Verizon or Comcast? A VPN might speed up that video(arstechnica.com)
1 points by sehrope 13y ago|0 comments
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The Art of Peering: The Peering Playbook(drpeering.net)
58 points by sehrope 13y ago|1 comments
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Payments experts assure Senate that swipe-and-sign cards will disappear in 2015(arstechnica.com)
1 points by sehrope 13y ago|0 comments
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by sehrope 13y ago
Pretty good article but had to laugh when I read this: > Common practice dictates that passwords have at least six characters and are changed frequently.
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by sehrope 13y ago
> It's 2014. HA is part of the MVP when you are charging people money or providing a business-critical service (even if it's free). Business critical and free are mutually exclusive. A free service might be business critical fo
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by sehrope 13y ago
> Fantastic post with really helpful tips. Thanks a lot for that. Thanks! > I really want to read the details on the spot instance setup for a web service. Do you have a quick summary for that? I don't have anything written up t

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