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by seldo 13y ago
This is interesting enough but describing it as "a JavaScript cloud scripting language" just makes me think their marketing person is throwing the word "cloud" in at random points.
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by seldo 13y ago
Feature request: it would be nice to have permalinks (even if they were really messy URLs) to filter-sets so that I can share the slice of the benchmarks I'm looking at with people, without having to list the filters manually.
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by seldo 13y ago
The money quote is this: "Google's recent announcement encouraged us to deploy our network more aggressively now. As I mentioned a few weeks ago, we’re ready to compete." Which sounds nice except, if you were ready to compete, why weren't y
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Time Warner offers free wifi to Austin customers in response to Google(gigaom.com)
2 points by seldo 13y ago|1 comments
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by seldo 13y ago
I think the simpler alternative is that it's just not a very interesting story. A game company trying to cover their asses for a bad launch of an unpopular design lied their asses off. So what? They seem to have got the server issues under
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by seldo 13y ago
Seriously. Basically all the biggest names in tech fall somewhere along the spectrum and I'd say easily a quarter of the people I've worked with.
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by seldo 13y ago
My non-rigorous impression is that latency is roughly the same now as it was in 2010, i.e. not great, but at least it hasn't been getting worse.
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by seldo 14y ago
This is the really important takeaway of this piece: "AT&T just admitted that they'll offer better service if there's real competition, so how do we make sure there's real competition?" AT&T and the others have been claiming for yea
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by seldo 14y ago
You go to http://status.twitter.com/ , which is powered by Tumblr which, in one of my favourite bits of Internet insanity, uses Twitter for status announcements: https://twitter.com/tumblr (there is a status.tumblr.com but it's blank).
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by seldo 14y ago
Yeah, that's fair. There's some grey area though -- like, if you accidentally delete a file on your site, your server will return 400. How is the server supposed to know it's accidental? So it's accurate (the user has requested a file that
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by seldo 14y ago
https://twitter.com/nodejitsu/status/321775765962240000 "Sorry for the inconveniences, we found that our database provider (@IrisCouch) is down at the moment, we are bringing up the cloud." I'm pretty surprised to learn that they don't ru
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by seldo 14y ago
As is often the case, their Twitter stream is a backup for news: https://twitter.com/nodejitsu
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by seldo 14y ago
This is one of those perennial problems: if you're spending engineering time making your "we're down" screen look good, you're really optimizing for the wrong thing, but on the other hand, some downtime is unavoidable and you don't want to
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by seldo 14y ago
Or possibly "don't follow instructions from people you don't trust", regardless of what they tell you to do.
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by seldo 14y ago
I'm seeing a lot of tweets about this from people who are just tuning in for the first time. This is par for the course for North Korea; they have been doing it for literally decades. Nothing to see here. A good analysis of likely outcomes
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by seldo 14y ago
I'm honestly really surprised to hear that anybody thinks there is still stigma attached to online dating. I don't know what it's like for straight people, but online dating definitely has zero stigma for gay folks. I mean, compared to Grin
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by seldo 14y ago
I think one of the core assumptions underlying people who adopt Bitcoin is "Inflation is bad". I'm no economist, but I don't think this is always the case. Currencies being able to rise and fall relative to each other allows governments to
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by seldo 14y ago
"By contrast, a person that creates units of convertible virtual currency and sells those units to another person for real currency or its equivalent is engaged in transmission to another location and is a money transmitter." If you mine bi
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by seldo 14y ago
I'm not sure how much you know about the drug business, but no part of the chain of illegal narcotic production, from the farmers to the chemists to the smugglers to the dealers, is quick or easy. The barons get where they are by taking eno
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by seldo 14y ago
Obligatory reference explaining why I read this as "big ass-display": http://xkcd.com/37/
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by seldo 14y ago
I note that when Twitter released their breach notice on a Friday afternoon there were comments accusing them of trying to "bury" the news: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5154502 While there are (so far) no such comments about Everno
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by seldo 14y ago
This sort of fake-loader animated GIF is pretty common; it's just a slightly more advanced version of a spinner GIF. I don't think it's really that bad. What would be bad is if this page would accept a parameter to redirect you to somewhe
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by seldo 14y ago
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems there's still no offline permission to share on a user's behalf. It seems to be a deliberate design decision, but it makes life tricky for somebody wanting to make a social media management platf
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by seldo 14y ago
Right! So imagine how much slower it would be if the process involved getting the Linux community to agree with Microsoft on a standard. I realize it's not quite the bad old days anymore, but still.
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by seldo 14y ago
I think the real, but unhelpful answer is "supply and demand". Most filesystems are used by only one operating system at a time. If two operating systems need to share files, they're usually on different machines, so it's simpler to copy th
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AWS, EBS and backups at awe.sm(blog.awe.sm)
5 points by seldo 14y ago|0 comments
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by seldo 14y ago
The thing about SETI is that it is not really a search for intelligent life, it's a search for "intelligent life that broadcasts radio waves of a frequency and power that we can detect in a pattern and on a timescale similar enough to our o
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by seldo 14y ago
This is our current list; I'm ignoring ones we've stopped using or haven't really started using properly yet. Github - obviously AWS - obviously Ylastic - easier AWS management Sendgrid - mail delivery Stripe - payment processing Pingdom -
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by seldo 14y ago
Not to be too harsh, but I'm not sure whether "we had no idea it was so bad" is better or worse than "we knew it was bad, but didn't tell anybody" for a platform company. The tone of the post is appropriately apologetic, but this does make
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by seldo 14y ago
We offer new employees Apple hardware, on which they are free to use OSX or Linux. Apple hardware is the best hardware out there, so that's a no-brainer. We avoid Windows for security and compatibility reasons.

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