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by sh1mmer 17y ago
That sounds like a job for a Github fork.
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by sh1mmer 17y ago
I wondered about this. It was discussed about how Pre sends a location update with its debug bundle. I wondered why Apple didn't send a location update when they pole for the push update. It wouldn't have to happen every time, but once ever
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by sh1mmer 17y ago
I do something like this with http://github.com/tylerhall/sosumi I was planning to write something which alternates between Sosumi and Clarke (Skyhook FireEagle updater for Mac) so when you are at your computer and updating you don't eat
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by sh1mmer 17y ago
I think the can of worms is that Backblaze themselves compared their system to more general solutions. While they were doing that for their own purpose they weren't so explicit with that point that many people (such as GigaOM, etc) took it
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by sh1mmer 17y ago
Interesting idea to get some press. Although, I believe technically Cockneys wouldn't use both parts of the rhyming slang. For example "Sky Rocket" (pocket) would be "Sky". The point being that it's impossible to guess the rhyming associati
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by sh1mmer 17y ago
I'm British, dear boy, understatement is just our way.
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by sh1mmer 17y ago
The site seems a little biased, however the actual case is interesting and they do link to the materials about case.
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by sh1mmer 17y ago
I've seen Kensington cable locks in the store in San Francisco
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by sh1mmer 17y ago
Having actually helped to write some standards (W3C, BSI, etc) I can say this is occasionally true, but mostly false, in my experience. It's a cute cliche, but I think there are other issues behind the apparent grinding pace of standards, p
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by sh1mmer 17y ago
I met these guys in Michigan before they moved. Lots of promise, I think this is going to be really interesting. I really hope they will get to a place to take LivePerson on.
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by sh1mmer 17y ago
I have to recommend the http://progit.org book, because Scott did an amazing job of explaining it step by step in a clear and concise way. It's also free online, which is an obvious bonus.
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by sh1mmer 17y ago
To repost the comment I made on the article: I think this is an unfair comparison and Cory is oversimplifying. For example: "Rather than buying a hard-drive once and paying nothing – apart from the electricity bill – to run it, you can buy
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by sh1mmer 17y ago
You should really read Isaac's comments on the blog: http://blog.greenfelt.net/2009/09/01/caching-javascript-safe... They are really insightful and expose the knowledge gained from a lot of work he's done at Yahoo! on this subject.
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by sh1mmer 17y ago
As the article points out Macheist are about marketing, and they seem to be very good at it. If the tweet strategy becomes ineffective by putting off more people than it draws then I'm sure they will discontinue it. I'd be gobsmacked if the
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by sh1mmer 17y ago
I love the concept, but watching the example videos I kinda wish they'd implemented a transition in there. Some of videos were really jarring moving from "interesting" to "interesting" states. A small audio/visual fade out and then in again
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by sh1mmer 17y ago
Quite a few companies have one. Yahoo! has one too ( http://companystore.yahoo.com/ ). I'm always amazed at the amount of people that stop in front of the Yahoo! sign to take photos.
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by sh1mmer 17y ago
That's a good point. CCTV may act as a deterrent. It make me wonder if crime moves somewhere without CCTV (in which case we'd need a 100% coverage to win, not a good proposition). Or, perhaps, it's not a zero-sum game. If many criminals are
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by sh1mmer 17y ago
One of the smart guys in our (Y!) cloud team just point out something to me that hadn't occurred to me. This system is definitely optimized for backup. That totally make sense for Backblaze. However it's important to not compare this like f
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by sh1mmer 17y ago
I'd love to hear what they are doing to monitor their system. They didn't mention that. 3 out of 15 drives failures to loose a volume seems quite likely at that scale. I'd like to know what levels of warnings and alarms they use with which
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by sh1mmer 17y ago
This is the trick, though. They want to improve their system. By sharing with you they may have solicited some really helpful advice.
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by sh1mmer 17y ago
I think that depends how transparent you are on your business practices. Running anything on a single server is dumb, but if you are one man shop running on EC2 and you are clear about that I don't think it's a big deal. Explain what you do
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by sh1mmer 17y ago
As frivolous as this seems, I think it's actually a really good idea. Google do this in a bunch of places. However unlike the MS flight simulator they are discoverable with use. The reason why this is important is it both delights the custo
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by sh1mmer 17y ago
An example of this is mailto:foo@bar.com this is still totally valid, but email addresses don't use the // notation for nodes.
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by sh1mmer 17y ago
Sorry about that. Not my intent. I actually upvoted the article because I did really enjoy it.
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by sh1mmer 17y ago
A bit of meta-commenting but the "Welcome HN" banner which encourages us to upvote the story put me right off. I'll vote it up if I like it, not because you customized your site to "Welcome" me because I read HN.
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by sh1mmer 17y ago
Anything that includes the three letters "RPC" is not inherently not RESTful. This is because you are making Calls to Remote Procedures rather than Transferring States of REpresentations [of resources]. I, of course, rearranged the acrony
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by sh1mmer 17y ago
Exactly, the same happens for me "n" is for Hacker News in my Firefox vunderbar.
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by sh1mmer 17y ago
So adding www makes his example completely moot. If shortness were an issue then why only use www.qwertqwert.com ?
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by sh1mmer 17y ago
Except that you don't seem to be doing anything with it.
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by sh1mmer 17y ago
If the only reason is shortness of typing, why don't you use a bookmark? Even s60 browsers have those.

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