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by smhinsey 17y ago
I think there's a little more to it than that when you are talking about frameworks like ASP.NET. It's simply not plausible or necessarily even possible to log every piece of information you might possibly need to debug a given problem. Tha
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by smhinsey 17y ago
I really want an API that provides info on TV shows. Ever since I heard about the Tommyverse[1] I've wanted to build an application that automatically maps it and lets you play around with the connections between shows, and while it's techn
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by smhinsey 17y ago
I've been following WPI for awhile, but I'm missing the actual connection to Azure here. From my perspective as someone who has been working in the Windows cloud ecosystem, Azure is more of a platform as a service than an infrastructure as
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by smhinsey 17y ago
What would such a partner do?
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by smhinsey 17y ago
I have a hard time imagining how a Server 2k3 or 2k8 instance would be useful with only 256MB of RAM.
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by smhinsey 17y ago
In short, yes. There's a good description of it here. http://clouddevelopertips.blogspot.com/2009/07/elastic-in-el...
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by smhinsey 17y ago
According to Amazon, EC2 can remove a server from an Elastic Load Balancer rotation at a polling interval of 5 seconds. You can pool servers in different availability zones into the same ELB. I'm not sure the question even makes sense in th
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by smhinsey 17y ago
Wow, at first I thought this might be something out of the NYT archives. These sorts of discussions were being had when it was first introduced in Vietnam, as mentioned by the author. It's stunning that this type of concern is still present
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by smhinsey 17y ago
If your load has predictable peaks it may make a lot of sense to spin up 1 quadruple extra large server rather than the equivalent number of large instances, particularly if you're talking about something like a memcached server.
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by smhinsey 17y ago
Perhaps I have become too cynical over the past several years, but to call this naive seems almost too charitable. As a physicist might say, this is not even wrong.
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by smhinsey 17y ago
What do you mean by self-employed if you don't have an income? If you are a contractor (such as myself) you should be fine with whatever tax-related paperwork you have, such as a 1099. If you're trying to start up, I'd second the suggestion
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by smhinsey 17y ago
I am a big reader of Metafilter and stumbling across a couple of greasemonkey scripts has made the experience significantly better. I haven't written my own scripts, but in these "fill in the gaps" situations it can be invaluable.
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by smhinsey 17y ago
The subhead on the home page works a lot better: "Windows 7: The Best Operating System Microsoft Has Ever Made." It strikes me as ill-considered editorial tweaking.
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by smhinsey 17y ago
I've brought ReSharper everywhere I've been and it's resulted in pretty significant purchases every time. It's a truly fantastic product. I really hope that this doesn't turn out to be a bad sign.
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by smhinsey 17y ago
This doesn't provide anything for free, it sets a floor on the minimum speed an ISP can offer.
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by smhinsey 17y ago
Richard Feynman, because he showed me through his writing that we all, no matter our backgrounds, can be enthralled by the mysteries that surround us.
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by smhinsey 17y ago
Indeed it did, and I have read it many times.
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by smhinsey 17y ago
It will be interesting to see how Microsoft reacts to this. I am in the early stages of planning an application that might have a rich client component. Since the rest of the stack is .NET, it made a lot of sense to look at Silverlight, but
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by smhinsey 17y ago
I can see that angle of it, but it just seems more to me that you're better off sticking with markup the most clients can understand. I'm not too familiar with programming for low phones (or phones at all for that matter) but it doesn't str
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by smhinsey 17y ago
Yeah, I am just thinking about all of the phones that have browsers sophisticated to handle most modern web apps. Even if the built ins can't handle it, you've got Opera which probably can. 3 of the ones I mentioned are even webkit-based. T
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by smhinsey 17y ago
WAP strikes me as an odd horse to hitch your wagon to in the first place. It may be that it's popular elsewhere, but I haven't had a phone that relied on a WAP browser since maybe 2002, and between iPhone, Android, Pre, WinMo, and Blackberr
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by smhinsey 17y ago
It does nothing to help their credibility that they are basically riding the coat tails of another firm, called Strategic Vision Inc. (the firm he is challenging is Strategic Vision, LLC), which is something Nate mentions in one of his post
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by smhinsey 17y ago
I wish I had the $200k to get this started. This is truly a righteous[1] project. [1] in the sense of being genuine and wonderful
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by smhinsey 17y ago
Thanks. What you describe sounds promising since I am mostly concerned about retaining the "click anywhere and start typing" nature of the app rather than the tight integration with the rest of Office. There are a couple of different method
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by smhinsey 17y ago
What would you say is the correspondence between OneNote desktop and web? If it is as flexible on the web as the desktop, I would be very impressed (and happy, it's a great app but it never made a lot of sense for me since I use a lot of di
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by smhinsey 17y ago
I understand that things of this nature have happened before. In one of the segments from his well-known talk on failure, Adam Savage mentions that it happened with (I believe) Crest over teeth whitening strips.
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by smhinsey 17y ago
That must've been posted after my comment, but who cares, it works. Thanks!
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by smhinsey 17y ago
I hope it fixes whatever it is that's causing the new Opera 10 to be unusably slow for me. Has anyone seen this? I haven't been able to get any usable results of out google yet.
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by smhinsey 17y ago
I'm not sure if this qualifies as measurable, but the ICRC does a lot of good in a lot of really bad places, and they produce testimonial and other documentation of what activities they can publicly document. (As you may or may not be aware
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by smhinsey 17y ago
I doubt they have the money, although there's an outside chance one of them could scrape it up, but it strikes me as a fairly perfect fit for any big newspaper, such as the NYT or the Washington Post, who actually has a somewhat similar (go

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